Job Title:       Ammunition Technician
Location:       Southend-on-Sea, Essex
Package:       Competitive Salary + Benefits Package Role Type:             Full-Time / Permanent
Role ID:         SF16589

Role Purpose

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an Ordnance Munitions and Explosives Technician at our Shoeburyness site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds. Working with many types of ammunition and explosives, the role is varied and includes providing support to the delivery of trials, selection and transportation of ammunition to ranges, inventory management, housekeeping of explosives buildings and general ammunition management duties.

Accountabilities of the Ammunition Technician

• Preparation of Ammunition for trials and proof activities including delivery to the Ranges
• Receipt and dispatch of ammunition including accurate completion of all relevant documentation
• Stock checking/inventory management
• Inspection of licenced Explosives buildings
• Control of entry into explosives areas
• Support the site on any task for which you are competent

Essential experience of the Ammunition Technician

• An awareness of Ordnance, Munitions & Explosives. Be able to describe and example each previously listed
• Be able to describe Hazard Type, Compatibility groups and why they are important
• Good level of general education particularly numeracy and literacy
• Understanding of Health and Safety at Work requirements
• Good understanding of Explosives Safety Management.
• The role requires outdoors work in extremes of weather and manual handling
• There may be a requirement for UK travel, including short-term deployments to other UK sites in support of activities elsewhere.
• Must be able to work as part of a team in a busy operational environment and take the lead when required

Essential Qualifications of the Ammunition Technician

• GCSE grade A-C, NVQ or similar
• Full UK Car Driving licence.

Desirable Qualifications of the Ammunition Technician

• Forklift Truck Certificate
• ADR class 1 certification
• LGV C, C+E
• NVQ Engineering or similar vocational qualification.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum. UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Flexible, adaptive working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave. 
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.