Total 3 job vacancies by General Dynamics Lands Systems UK

Description

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Security Administrator & Receptionist to join our Security Team, based in Merthyr, South Wales. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £22,700 to £23,200 based on experience and potential. The Security Administrator & Receptionist role will provide a seamless and welcoming experience for customers and visitors upon arrival and departure of the facility. They will greet visitors, manage the signing in/out, security badge issuing and host notifications. They will respond to routine enquiries in person, by phone and via email/Teams, promptly and courteously, ensuring consistent and high-quality levels of customer care. The successful candidate will be required to work with the security team, to focus on important security and administration tasks. Another primary responsibility of this role will be conducting and maintaining security vetting for all employees, contractors and visitors. They will support in issuing and updating security and staff passes, including adding and removing access, manage visitor requests and complete general administration duties.

If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:

• Greet visitors and direct them appropriately
• Signing in and out of visitors, issuing of security badges and notify the correct company personnel of their arrival.
• Manage visitor requests and scheduling
• Operating desk phone and diverting relevant calls
• Support in Security audits and reporting
• Issuing and update staff passes including adding and removing access
• Conducting and maintaining security vetting for all employees, contractors and visitors.
• Maintain awareness of vetting aftercare.
• Work closely with HR on management of new starter process.
• Approving internal security approvals.
• Coverage of general administration duties including raising requisitions, receipting invoices, filing, reporting, managing spreadsheets, photocopying/ scanning etc

To apply for this role, you will require the following:

• Experience in a similar role is essential
• Knowledge of Security and Vetting procedures (not essential but desired)
• Experience of working with Personal Data (not essential but desired)
• Some experience of front of house activity in a receptionist type role
• Understanding of a production workplace
• Customer service skills
• Ability to work well with others
• To be thorough and pay attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Multitasking, prioritising and organizational skills
• Computer literacy is a must, including Microsoft office and be confident in learning new computer systems for the role.

Our Company Benefits: We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:

• A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
• A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
• A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
• Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
• A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace

About General Dynamics UK General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 650 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability.We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance teamAs part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity we welcome in particular applications from women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ethnic minority groups. We are a Disability Confident Employer, as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

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Description

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering Team, based in Merthyr Tydfil and Oakdale, South Wales. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £43,200 to £54,000 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally. Joining an established team, you will work across a range of stakeholders within the software development team working closely with systems engineering and validation teams to add new capability. The role spans the full software development life-cycle encompassing requirements derivation, architectural design analysis, implementation, integration and test. If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:

• Interpret functional and non-functional software requirements embodying them in detailed software designs that align with the broader software architecture.
• Develop and update software solutions, using the C++ programming language, validating fulfilment of requirements and adherence to detailed software designs.
• Where required effectively identify defect and failure root cause, then using the knowledge gained, identify appropriate design and implementation changes to effect resolution.
• Perform all software tasks in full adherence to the project’s software development process, associated policies and guidelines.
• Ensure component regression tests are maintained and extended in-line with new development and defect resolutions.
• Supply accurate effort and timescales estimates for assigned software tasks and report progress to line manager.

To apply for this role, you will require the following:

• Professional experience developing distributed, multi-threaded, real-time software systems.
• Professional experience implementing software applications and services using C++
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Proficient in design capture in UML using Object Orientated Design (OOD) methodologies
• Familiarity with software configuration and change control best practice
• Strong communication skills including excellent written and spoken English.
• Hold or be capable of holding security clearance up to the level of SECRET.

Our Company Benefits: We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:

• A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
• A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
• A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
• Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
• A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace
• BEng / BS Honours Degree in SW Engineering, EE, CS, Physics, Mathematics or equivalent (2.1 and above)
• Experience across Software Requirements Capture, Architectural Design, Implementation and Test.

About General Dynamics UK General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 650 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability. We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team As part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity we welcome in particular applications from women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ethnic minority groups. We are a Disability Confident Employer, as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Description

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Ajax Hull Manufacturing Engineer to join our Manufacturing Team, based in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales on a permanent contract. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £41,600 to £52,000 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally.

Joining an established team, you will work across a range of stake holders participating and co-ordinating the implementation of major component fabrication & quality rectification. Role requires development and documentation of rework processes, ability to define solutions from tech drawing analysis, and generate tooling in-house for the Assembly processes.

Ensuring: DFM, DFT & DTC principles have been applied to optimise quality, cost and turnaround time objectives.

If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:

· Ensuring appropriate facilities are in place to support qualification / production vehicle and sub-system build and test in accordance to schedule.

· Working with the Supply Chain supporting Supplier selection initiatives, problem resolution and cost out initiatives.

· Supporting AJAX Design Engineering and other new programmes in order to ensure that DFM, DFT & DTC principles are implemented within the conceptual and final design phases.

· Generation/governance of Technical documentation to ensure hull repair actions return the product to design intent.

To apply for this role, you will require the following:

· Proven experience working with Manufacturing Assembly and Test processes (AFV Ajax / ELS experience preferred)

· Experience of low volume & high value (vehicle or similar) production.

· Knowledge and procurement of tooling and facilitation activities required for manufacturing large high value / low volume products

· Working experience of welded structures for wheeled/tracked vehicles (armour preferable)

· A working understanding of two & three dimensional CAD tools is essential

· Significant experience/background in a Process/Manufacturing Engineering role

· Good working knowledge of MRP systems including:

· MBOM creation and maintenance

· Change control and change introduction

· The jobholder should possess a Degree, HNC or equivalent (vocational experience) in Manufacturing Mechanical Engineering or Manufacturing Weld & Fabrication equivalent.

· Experience working as a Manufacturing Engineer covering Mechanical/Electrical assemblies

· A good knowledge of PDM and MRP principles

· Participation in ‘Lean Process’ initiatives.

Our Company Benefits:

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:

· A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!

· A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs

· A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company

· Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential

· A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share

· A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace

About General Dynamics UK

General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 500 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability.

We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team

As part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity we welcome in particular applications from women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ethnic minority groups.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme