About the job

Job summary

At Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), we supply and maintain vital equipment and services for the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. Together, we deliver a vast range of essential defence programmes, and strive for what's next. Because it helps keep our military at the top of their game and our nation safe – for today, and tomorrow.

We offer 25+ days’ holiday, flexible and hybrid working, enhanced parental leave schemes, shopping discounts, and an exceptional employer pension contribution of around 27%, to help work, work for you.

Nationality, visas and vetting: We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship.

This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance. Clearance must be obtained without any caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role you have been recruited for. If it isn’t obtained, or is obtained but with caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role, any conditional offer made to you will be withdrawn. Obtaining SC security clearance can be a lengthy process, and we reserve the right to withdraw any conditional offer made if the necessary security clearance isn’t obtained within 12 months.

Job description

Are you interested in working on some of the leading Defence Technical Projects and Programmes supporting our Armed Forces in current and future operations? If so, Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) have an excellent opportunity for an Engineer to join their Standardisation Management Team in Glasgow.

The Standardisation Management Team have a unique position within DE&S which allows them to maintain visibility across pan-domain organisations. You will be joining a team with a diverse set of specialist skills, who have built strong collaborative networks within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and across the supply chain enabling them to be valued as specialists and experts providing a unique service to DE&S and the wider MOD.

The Standardisation Management Team make sure projects provide the right deliverables and add real value to the customer. They aim to deliver innovative crosscutting solutions that save their customers money and deliver enhanced capabilities. They help shape their customers’ requirements, so they address the right problem from the outset.

You will use your engineering skills to deliver and support some of the UK’s largest, technically challenging and most important engineering projects. You will typically support the definition of technical requirements, and manage solution development, and use and grow your skills and subject matter knowledge to help DE&S ensure that the armed forces can operate in the most demanding environments.

As a Standards Engineer, you will be delivering a through life process that enables the drafting, development, and maintenance of standards and will be promoting the intelligent selection and implementation of standards, policy, processes and tools, to reduce potential safety, technical and commercial risk in MOD equipment programmes.

At DE&S, we champion flexible ways of working. Regular in-person attendance is required to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance. Initially, you may be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with the site, the team, and your role.

What you’ll be doing

At this level, your role may also encompass elements of planning, performance reporting, and the development of its people. Duties may also include:

• Manage engineering technical requirements
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of system requirements including in-service support
• Provide specialist advice on the application of safety and environmental management systems
• Determine quality management and assurance approaches and ensure technical risks are understood and managed
• Participate in identification, selection, evaluation, performance verification and demonstrations within their technical area
• Produce and contribute to Engineering Management Plans

Person specification

To be successful with your application, you'll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• You will hold a relevant Level 4 (HNC or higher) qualification in an engineering or science discipline or equivalent working experience
• Registration with a relevant Professional Engineering / Science Institute or equivalent body or has demonstrated equivalent knowledge, skills and experience
• Evidence of the ability to interface with internal and external customers to help understanding of technical documentation
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint)

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Improve Engineering Capability (Supervised Practitioner)
• Technical Decision Making (Supervised Practitioner)
• Communicating and influencing
• Seeing the bigger picture

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £36,100, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,747 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Your application will go through the following stages of assessment:

1. Pre-sift - We will check that you meet any essential or eligibility criteria that are listed in the Person Specification section of this advert. On your CV, please clearly show how you meet the essential criteria.
2. Sift - Your CV will be assessed against the following categories, using a simple numerical scoring system: Key Achievements; Relevant Experience; Applied Knowledge and Skills

Please follow our guidance on CV writing for best chance of success.

3. Interview - If you're invited to interview, you'll be assessed against the Sift categories listed above, as well as the Technical Competences and Behaviours listed in the Person Specification section of this advert.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.