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Research & Development Manager

Employer
General Dynamics UK
Location
Oakdale, Blackwood, Chippenham or Remote Working with travel to site
Salary
£60,000 to £75,000 dependant upon experience
Closing date
27 Nov 2021
Reference
9230

Job Details

General Dynamics Mission Systems UK is seeking a talented Research and Development Manager to join our innovative team. This full-time R&D Manager role is flexible and offers a favourable salary of £60k-£75k and excellent benefits.

 

In this Development Manager role, you will incubate new ideas and project proposals that support business objectives. You will also deliver successful projects of value to the business and promote innovative technologies and processes.

 

Your Research Manager responsibilities will include:

  • Providing senior stakeholders with a monthly status report of all R&D projects
  • Ensuring R&D projects are aligned with Business Development Goals
  • Providing stakeholders with a quarterly review, including demonstrations of all R&D projects

 

To succeed in this flexible Research and Development Manager role, you will need experience developing products and excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. You should also be prepared to work across a diverse range of technologies.

 

Our Company Benefits

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

  • A compressed nine-day fortnight and compressed hours - which means every other Friday off
  • A personalized career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
  • A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognized and rewarded with flexible benefits

 

If this flexible Research and Development Manager job interests you, please apply today.

 

General Dynamics Mission Systems aims to be as flexible as possible so this role could either be based working from home, with a requirement for travel to our sites or based within our offices in Oakdale or Chippenham depending upon your preference.

 

General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. 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 welcome you to join our inclusive team!

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

Company

We are one of the UK’s leading defence companies and an important supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence. What sets us apart is not only our 60+ years of experience, but our commitment to providing an innovation-driven workplace for some of the best and brightest minds in the UK defence industry.

GD 1

We have established a worldwide reputation for excellence in delivering multi-domain C4ISR solutions, Armoured Fighting Vehicle capability, and next-generation avionics systems.

Our colleagues innovate on a daily basis to meet our customers’ unique mission and land systems requirements.  While each individual brings their unique and valued expertise, personality, interests and perspectives to the organisation, one thing unites us all – our ongoing commitment to excellence, community, and teamwork.

GD 2

General Dynamics UK is part of General Dynamics Corporation, one of the top five defence companies in the world. General Dynamics, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, employs approximately 100,000 people worldwide. The Company is a market leader in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat systems; armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and information systems and technologies.

GD 3

In the UK we are structured around two main businesses:

Land Systems and Mission Systems. 

Our solutions include:

  • Avionic systems
  • Bowman
  • C4I systems - Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information
  • Digitised training solutions and services
  • ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition & Reconnaissance) systems
  • Modelling, simulation and experimentation systems
  • Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV)
Company info
Website
Telephone
(0) 1495 787 200
Location
Unit 1 and 3
Oakdale Court
Oakdale Business Park
Blackwood
South Wales
NP12 4AD
United Kingdom

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