Weapon Effects & Collateral Damage Analyst

About the job

Summary

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is part of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and provides the impartial scientific and technical advice to the MOD and other Government departments.

The role sits within a highly dynamic area, developing tools and techniques to improve MODs ability to assess conventional weapon effects and collateral damage, then using those tools to provide high-impact operational advice to senior decision makers. The advice provided is critical in ensuring MOD is able to meet its legal duty to protect civilians and ensure any use of weapons is proportionate.

Job description

You will work closely with Dstl colleagues across multiple sites to deliver outputs, drawing in domain expertise from across MOD, UK Government and international governments. The outputs you provide will be briefed to senior decision makers to provide them with the advice they require to take operational decisions.

You will provide timely, impartial, evidence-based advice to customers to enable them to make informed operational targeting and policy decisions.

Provide domain expertise on weapon effects and collateral damage to other Dstl projects.

Be responsible for the development and maintenance of physics-based fast running engineering models.

Be responsible for weapon effects and collateral damage knowledge management, ensuring data is maintained and information and data are readily accessible, available and exploitable.

You will be working within a small team of weapons effects analysts, engineers and scientists. You will be a technically capable, self-starting person with an ability to work effectively both within a team and independently.

Lead more junior team members, providing them with guidance, oversight, inspiration and direction.

Responsibilities

We are looking for someone with:

The ability to communicate technical outputs and uncertainty to a variety of audiences.

The ability to apply a broad variety of analytical techniques to define and analyse problems to tight timescales.

Existing knowledge of software engineering principles.

The ability to rapidly assess the situation, and then dynamically plan, conduct and report analyses in very short timescales (days at most), with little or no notice.

The initiative to plan ahead in order to prepare for and pre-empt reach-back and other support to operations demands.

The capability to routinely interact with military staffs and commanders and communicate complex analyses to them clearly and concisely.

Important Information .

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be British Citizens who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to understand the work you will undertake to protect us from any security threats. For this reason, we regret that only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners across the enterprise. We work closely with the Defence and Security Industry on many projects, so it would be great to work with you via one of our partners.

Security Clearance

This role will require you to have (or able to attain) Developed Vetting status.

Qualifications

Degree level education or equivalent in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) subject.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Delivering at Pace

Communicating and Influencing

Making Effective Decisions

Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Communicating and Influencing

Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

You will be tested on your analytical skills and technical suitability for the position at interview.

Benefits

We'll provide a great range of benefits including;

? Fully flexible working, including alternative working patterns, compressed hours and job share, to name a few.

? Excellent learning and development to ensure everyone fulfils their potential.

? Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

? Chartership and accreditation support.

? Pension.

? Generous annual leave, with the ability to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year.

? A competitive salary.

? Onsite gyms and restaurants.

? Staff discounts for high street and online shopping, restaurants and days out.

Our Diversity Networks

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution. We have a number of support networks to ensure all employees feel supported at work.

These include the following;

- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Network

- Faith and Culture Network

- Parents and Carer Support Network

- Alternative Working Network

- Gender Equality Network

- New Starters Network

- Enabled Network, for people with visible and non-visible disabilities