Payload Integration Manager

Salary and Employment

Salary: £45,000-£55,000 DOE. Full time, permanent position.

What We Offer

• Pension Contribution – salary sacrifice option.
• Annual Bonus Scheme – participation in company discretionary bonus.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – 4x salary Life Assurance and CC cover.
• Annual Leave – 25 days plus bank holidays.
• Christmas Leave – typically observed shutdown.
• Wellbeing Day – one extra day each year.
• Family Leave – enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Private Healthcare – comprehensive coverage.
• Professional Development – training programmes & LinkedIn Learning.
• Flexible Working – flexible arrangements.
• Inclusive Culture – diverse, innovative environment.

Role Overview

Payload Integration Manager within Product team: deliver rapidly integrated operational payloads across surface, aerial, and subsurface platforms. Operate in prototype‑warfare, ensuring right payloads identified, integrated, and fielded. Hands‑on, delivery‑focused, prioritising mission success over process.

Responsibilities

• Own payload integration from concept to trial.
• Identify and prioritise payload options with suppliers.
• Translate intelligence and operational needs into integration reality.
• Rapid prototyping and physical integration using CAD and 3D printing.
• Pull critical inputs from Engineering to convert constraints into solutions.
• Act as cross‑functional integration hub aligning operations, engineering, and commercial.
• Support trials, demonstrations, operational testing; resolve issues in real time.
• Define pragmatic payload requirements ensuring safety, repeatability, and speed.
• Provide expertise on payload and weapons integration risks, trade‑offs, & future rapid‑delivery options.

Qualifications and Experience

• 3+ years weapons, sensor, or payload integration in defence, aerospace, maritime, robotics, or autonomous systems domains.
• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and control interfaces; hands‑on with engineers.
• Experience delivering prototype or rapid‑iteration capability.
• Working knowledge of CAD and rapid prototyping / 3D printing.
• Proven ability to engage external suppliers and coordinate with internal teams.
• Comfortable translating incomplete operational needs into working payload integrations.
• Familiarity with safety cases, certification constraints, and live trial environments.
• Adaptable, self‑driven, efficient in fast‑moving, high‑pressure delivery settings.
• Willing to travel domestically and internationally at short notice.
• Able to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (minimum SC).

Security Requirements

Selected candidate must meet security requirements: right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) plus UK National security clearance where required.

Values and Expectations

• Teamwork, mutual respect, collaboration.
• Initiative and independent working.
• Honesty and integrity.
• Business and commercial awareness.
• Agility, adaptability, continuous development.

EEO Statement

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.

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