Senior Systems Test & Trials Lead

Salary: £45,000 - 58,000 per year

Requirements:

• Line management experience, with the ability to support, motivate and develop engineers through clear objectives, coaching and regular feedback.
• Proven experience coordinating test and trials activity, including planning, scheduling, and managing dependencies in a laboratory or representative system environment.
• Strong engineering approach, with the ability to create and maintain clear plans, procedures and checklists, and drive work to completion through good preparation and follow-through.
• Strong delivery governance skills, able to track and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalate appropriately, and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Comfortable working with multi-disciplinary engineering teams across hardware, software and networks, coordinating across interfaces without needing to be the deepest technical expert.
• Some exposure to the Electronic Warfare domain through industry, military, or adjacent programmes to understand terminology, context and stakeholder priorities.
• Strong organisation and documentation skills, including producing and maintaining plans, minutes, actions, procedures, controlled configuration baselines and evidence packs.
• Able to communicate clearly with customers and stakeholders.
• Eligible to work in the UK and able to obtain and maintain UK Government SC-level security clearance.
• Experience using planning and delivery tools such as MS Project, Jira, Confluence, or Excel trackers to manage schedules, actions and dependencies.
• Working knowledge of systems engineering and test governance such as acceptance criteria, V&V planning, interface control notes and readiness reviews.
• Experience developing repeatable procedures, checklists and safe systems of work, including running readiness reviews and lessons learned sessions.
• Experience with configuration and document control, including version control or controlled document repositories, and maintaining a controlled configuration baseline.
• Understanding of computer networking and networked systems sufficient to plan activities, ask the right questions, and coordinate subject matter experts when required.
• Experience working in an agile delivery environment and coordinating work across multiple stakeholders.
• Broader EW domain experience, such as threat or mission context, sensor or effector integration, or EW test and evaluation, and understanding how effects can be represented and assessed.
• Experience coordinating external or internal contributors such as suppliers, facilities, security and IT to enable delivery of test and trials activity.
• STEM degree, or equivalent experience, with a strong practical engineering mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the practical planning and control of test and trials activity.
• Build schedules, coordinate dependencies, and manage readiness of assets and facilities.
• Ensure the right people, equipment, access, data and documentation are in place at the right time.
• Allocate work across the team, remove blockers, and maintain a controlled configuration baseline to support change control and keep delivery on track.
• Coordinate laboratory-based test and trials activity through preparation, execution and post-activity reporting.
• Manage risks, issues and dependencies, ensure work is carried out safely and consistently, and capture and report results clearly.
• Line manage a small team of up to 3 engineers, supporting capability development through coaching and regular one-to-ones.
• Set clear objectives, manage performance, and create an inclusive environment where people can do their best work.
• Work with customers and internal stakeholders to shape delivery plans, agree acceptance criteria, and keep test and trials activity progressing.
• Provide day-to-day coordination and engineering governance in support of major projects.
• Work alongside the Principal Test & Trials Engineer to ensure delivery is aligned with agreed engineering standards and priorities.
• Maintain disciplined documentation and robust engineering processes to support timely customer decisions.

Technologies:

• Confluence
• Excel
• Hardware
• Support
• JIRA
• Security
• Git

More:

We are an expanding Electronic Warfare Operations Support Group of more than 60 electronic warfare specialists, bringing together engineers, scientists and ex-military personnel to help our customers achieve true operational potential and keep their people and platforms safe. We are growing our team to deliver complex test and trials activity within our state-of-the-art test and evaluation facility at our head office in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. This is a permanent, onsite role with a salary of £45,000 to £58,000 DOE, plus benefits including 25 days annual leave, the option to buy or sell up to 5 days of leave, an annual wellbeing allowance, pension choices, private medical insurance, life assurance, share save, car leasing, cycle to work, retail discounts and career development support. Wellbeing is at the core of our culture, with mental health first aiders and a comprehensive employee assistance programme to support our people.

last updated 31 week of 2026