Electro Optic and Infrared (EOIR) Land Signatures Lead

☞ Dstl

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Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: Fareham South East

Category: Other Part-time

Industry: Information Technology Services Research Financial Services

Job type: Part-time

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The success of the individual will impact on the ability of Dstl to deliver high quality impartial advice and assurance to all of its customers, academia, industry and international counterparts.

In This Role You Will
  • Work with stakeholders to develop, lead and deliver high impact studies in EOIR Land Signatures
  • Design, develop, implement & maintain new capabilities to provide key advice to the MOD
  • Be the Dstl focus for EOIR Land signatures across the lab, amongst academia and industry and with our international partners
  • Provide SME input to support signatures representation in Operational Analysis
  • Be an expert user of relevant software modelling packages including CameoSim and TAIThermIR
  • Be expected to develop and use a broad network of both internal and external specialists across Dstl to solve complex and non-routine problems
  • Be an enthusiastic problem solver who can define, develop and utilise software and hardware tools to address questions in a fast-evolving area of Defence
  • Develop a fundamental understanding of the Land war-fighting environment to understand how signatures impact survivability
Lead on the development and execution of EO and IR band research to enable the delivery of high quality outputs in a timely fashion.
  • Work effectively as part of the wider Land Signatures and Land Survivability teams on a number of studies.
  • Build and maintain good internal and external relationships.
  • Support the delivery of complex interdisciplinary projects.
  • Build effective networks across Dstl and the wider technical community.
  • Develop new ideas for improving capability, and see them to fruition.
Responsibilities

The role supports classified projects relating to in-service and future novel platforms and technologies.
  • You will be responsible for the collection and production of data, presentations, reports and other outputs which are of satisfactory quality and timeliness and to present results in an appropriate manner.
  • You will be responsible for supporting project managers in developing and maintaining budgets for the work you lead.
We Are Looking For Someone Who Has
  • The ability to understand customer intent and develop and lead studies accordingly
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • The ability to think and work innovatively to overcome current and future problems facing defence
  • The ability to use a network of internal and external partners to deliver
You will be an advocate for continuously improving our tools and methods to make them fit to provide the scientific advice on which our Armed Forces rely.

Technical Skills

Essential Qualifications
  • Degree in a mathematical, scientific or analytical discipline or
  • Demonstrable, relevant experience in place of a degree qualification
Essential Skills
  • Ability to translate customer requirements into research proposals.
  • Excellent communication skills to create effective professional relationships with scientific, analytical, military and international partners.
  • Good planning skills with the ability to establish clear pathways and contingencies to goal completion.
  • Highly IT literate with ability to use software packages such as Matlab and Blender to support data analysis and modelling.
  • Ability to lead and influence a small technical team to complete tasks.
  • Ability to act as a mentor to develop wider capability within the team.
Essential Experience
  • The applicant should demonstrate an expert knowledge of EO and IR signatures preferably in the Land domain.
  • Experience of field data collection methods for EO and IR bands
  • Ability to select and use appropriate analysis techniques to answer research questions.
  • Experience of planning and delivering studies
  • Experience of writing reports and giving presentations.
  • Experience of the CameoSim software package.
We actively encourage and welcome applications from those who work alternative working patterns (part-time, job share, term-time only etc.), Please be prepared to discuss this if you are selected for interview. You can also discuss your working pattern with the recruiting line manager or talent acquisition adviser at the application stage if preferred.

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.

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.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

Work location
Dstl is strongly encouraging blended and flexible working either at one of our sites or from home or both. We want to empower you to undertake your duties at the most appropriate location for the task, however you will be allocated a Dstl site as a base. You may be required to travel to other Dstl and MoD sites as required.

We particularly welcome female and ethnic minority applicants and those from the LGBTQI community, as they are under-represented within Dstl at these levels.
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Deadline: 21-06-2024

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