Description:
Our client is an award-winning company; committed to providing an inclusive working environment where our employees can be themselves and everyone has equal opportunity to reach their full potential. They value and know that a diverse community makes for greater innovation and brings a breadth of skills, experience and perspectives.
An opportunity has arisen for an availability modeler to become an integral part of the team leading the modelling activity through the complexity of the mid-life refurbishment phase. This is an opportunity to learn more about the importance and principals of availability, engaging directly with MOD staff supporting the Type 45 platform.
The Opportunity:
- Develop and maintain close working relationships with various stakeholders including MOD delivery staff, front line support and capability assurance
- Ensuring timely supply of data from across teams to enable stockpile model to be populated for regular updates and ad-hoc assessments of potential solutions
- Carry out programme level tracking and analysis of performance against defined targets
- Produce availability modelling baselines running collected data through existing models
- Producing and analysing ‘what-if’ scenarios to support customer decision making processes
- Identifying model enhancements to support both increased functionality and scope).
- Ensuring other MBDA stockpile models benefit from experience from the environment, and that new functionality introduced elsewhere can be leveraged into the model.
Requirements:
- Basic code/model running mindset
- Excellent excel skills for front end visualising and data interrogation
- Logical and analytic way of working to support inconsistences and support the development of explanations
- The ability to develop an understanding of weapon system programmes within the lifecycle
- Being able to communicate complex data and information at multiple appropriate levels.
- Collating detailed analysis and graphical outputs into concise forms, pulling out the key points, and posing questions for consideration.
- Understanding of why availability modelling and data tracking is important