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Working at MBDA

  • Company employees
    7000
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    74:26

Hiring in

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  • United Kingdom

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Join MBDA as a Project Support Specialist in this full-time, hybrid role based in the UK, requiring a minimum of three days a week on-site. Earn a salary of circa £41,000 depending on experience, plus strong bonus opportunities and benefits, while helping to deliver technical capability and skills improvement across the Technical Directorate.

Requirements

  • Experience working with engineering or technical teams.
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) for reports, presentations, and data analysis.
  • Strong stakeholder management, networking, and communication skills.
  • British Citizen or Dual UK national with British citizenship, subject to BPSS security clearance.
  • No specific degree requirement or minimum years of experience stated in the posting.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Stakeholder management: Build effective relationships across international functions and coordinate the Technical Expert Network to ensure clear communication.
  • Project planning: Translate requirements into structured plans and support reporting and milestone tracking for CK&S improvement projects.
  • Documentation: Develop and maintain resources, guidance, best-practice frameworks, and technical libraries using Microsoft Office tools.
  • Facilitation: Support the organisation of meetings and workshops by preparing materials and capturing outputs.
  • Continuous improvement: Contribute to initiatives that drive consistency and efficiency across the Technical Directorate.
  • Potential transition routes: People from project administration, technical coordination, or business support roles may bring transferable planning and communication skills, alongside meeting security clearance requirements.

Job description

Join the Capability, Knowledge & Skills (CK&S) team within the Technical Excellence Directorate, providing an excellent opportunity to gain experience in supporting the teams projects and key stakeholders to help deliver capability and skills improvement across the Technical directorate.

Salary: Circa £41,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (Hybrid) working: The success of this role is dependent on building effective networks and relationships. As such, we require a minimum of three days a week on site with occasional UK and European travel.

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

  • Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
  • Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
  • Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
  • Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
  • Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
  • Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
  • Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
  • Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
  • Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more*.*

The opportunity:

As the Project Support Specialist you'll be tasked with supporting the delivery of specific improvement plans, working with a wide range of teams across international functions, helping to keep initiatives organised, on track, and well communicated.

You’ll collaborate closely with technical experts and stakeholders, supporting strategies and solutions that enhance current and future technical capabilities. This role is central to ensuring the team can deliver high-quality outcomes with your support. The team are dynamic, focused and passionate about continuous improvement to enable efficient ways of working, driving efficiency and influencing positive change.

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MBDA

Project Support Specialist

Bristol, Stevenage
Hybrid
Circa £41,000 depending on experience

This exciting challenge means you will get to support improvement projects in many different ways from project requirements and analysis through to comms and stakeholder engagement. You'll have the opportunity to work with international teams on projects that will shape the future technical capabilities at MBDA.

Key responsibilities:

  • Support Capability, Knowledge & Skills improvement projects, ensuring effective governance, planning and execution
  • Reporting and milestone tracking, ensuring actions are delivered
  • Help coordinate the Technical Expert Network, ensuring effective communication and engagement
  • Support the organisation of meetings and workshops, including preparing materials and capturing outputs
  • Develop and maintain resources, guidance, and best-practice frameworks and technical libraries
  • Support communication and stakeholder engagement plans
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, sharing best practice and driving consistency across the Technical directorate
  • Maintain and update guidance documents, knowledge resources, and shared repositories

What we’re looking for from you:

  • Experience working with engineering or technical teams
  • The ability to translate requirements into structured plans
  • Strong stakeholder management and networking skills
  • The ability to build effective relationships across international functions
  • Be passionate about supporting continuous delivery and innovative solutions
  • Be able to work in a dynamic technical environment and deliver on multiple simultaneous projects, with a proactive mindset
  • Be a strong communicator, both written and verbal, with experience producing reports, facilitating meetings and able to collaborate with the wider business, working across all levels in an organisation
  • Highly proficient in creating dynamic reports, presentations and data analysis using Microsoft Office tools (e.g. PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more…

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.

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