Radar Instructor

Introduction

Saab UK is part of Scandinavia’s largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.

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Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here.

The Role:

The Sensor Systems UK Integrated Logistic Support Training team is seeking a talented and highly motivated UK-based Radar Instructor to support our portfolio of sensor systems operations . The training team is responsible for providing operator and advanced maintenance training at our sites in Fareham, UK and Gothenburg, Sweden, as well as at customer locations globally. 

The successful candidate should have the potential to help the business develop the role.  You will be required to work with the customers’ needs foremost, in an environment where cooperation and problem solving are necessary traits. You thrive in big groups, and easily maintain a large professional network. You are perceptive and flexible, but have integrity and always act with Saab’s best interest in mind.  In order to ensure we deliver the highest quality training, we focus on using different training methodologies and techniques to best suit the training output.  You will be trained across the Saab UK sensor system portfolio, with opportunities to develop within Saab.

As well as delivering training, you will also be responsible for developing, creating and maintaining the necessary educational material, and assisting in the compilation of technical publications, supporting our UK and Swedish colleagues.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Radar Instructor, you will be responsible for various activities across the training product lifecycle through development, delivery and assurance, in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders. Further responsibilities will include:

• To Plan and deliver both operator and maintainer courses on a variety of sensor systems.
• Administration and reporting of training events as required.
• Operate and fault-find on customer sensor systems to enhance training.
• Solicit, compile, analyse and react to student feedback, internally and externally.
• Offer subject matter expert advice on system and software development.
• Provide feedback and input into sensor technical publications.
• Provide support to demonstrations, trials, exercises and other company market growth activities.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Be a motivated and critical thinking individual, with excellent interpersonal skills that will be comfortable working in a complex customer-facing environment.
• Enjoy working and developing as part of a team, but also able to individually manage your own workload as required.
• Experience of radar, communications or sophisticated electronic systems.
• Teaching or instructional experience.  Previous experience in a technical customer-facing environment, demonstrating problem-solving and leadership in a high-pressure environment.
• Computer literate.
• Be willing to travel within UK and globally; this will be an active role, with events occurring regularly throughout the year (up to 3 weeks per training event).
• Full UK driving licence.
• During your employment you will handle tasks and materials that are classified as military secret and therefore you must have a UK or Swedish citizenship.
• Qualified to ONC/HNC level or equivalent experience in a technical area.
• Previous military experience or exposure.

As a National Security Vetting clearance is required for this role, applicants will be required to hold National Security Vetting clearance to SC level, or have the ability to gain it.