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Company:

OSL is a leading provider of cutting-edge technology solutions in the fields of CUAS (Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems), PIDS (Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems), data-as-a-service, and more. Our primary product is a CUAS C2 system that leverages advanced sensors, proprietary C2 technology, and AI and machine learning algorithms to detect drones, people, and vehicles. We are at the forefront of innovation in aerospace and defence projects, and we are looking for a talented Project Engineering Lead to join our team.

Job Description:

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Project Engineering Lead to take the lead on complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in systems engineering, software and hardware development. Defining good user requirements and user stories is a key skill for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage complex projects related to CUAS, aerospace from inception to completion.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and refine project requirements.
• Translate user requirements into user stories for development and drive the development process.
• Oversee systems integration, testing, and validation efforts to ensure seamless operation.
• Utilise agile development principles to facilitate efficient project execution.
• Leverage Azure DevOps for project tracking and management.
• Provide expertise in systems engineering fundamentals, including requirement elicitation and lifecycle management.
• Apply experience in CUAS, aerospace, or defence projects to guide project strategy and decision-making.
• Contribute to the development of AI and machine learning algorithms for a C2 system.

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

The role involves being at the forefront of providing CUAS and Security services to large scale international customers. In this role, you will be responsible for installing, maintaining, testing and evaluating a range of sensors such as radars, radio frequency (RF) detectors, and various camera systems.

The post comes with a competitive salary, a work pension and 33 days holiday.

Essential Requirements:

• Legally able to be employed in the UK.
• Must pass a DBS check.
• Must be able to achieve UK SC Clearance.
• A full, manual Driving Licence.
• Flexibility to work for periods at night due to operational necessity.
• Organised and self-motivated, able to work using own initiative or as a team member following strict operational protocol, processes and procedures.
• Assist in the development and enhancement of the system and its operation.
• Highly confident and approachable with the enthusiasm to maintain the highest personal and professional standards in a busy environment.

Key Skills (essential):

• Qualified, multi-skilled Engineer with either a field service or maintenance background and exposure to repair, maintenance, fault finding, installation and commissioning of security and/or electromechanical systems.
• Working knowledge of equipment software, hardware, basic network configuration.
• Understanding of radar and RF theory and characteristics.
• The ability to assess equipment performance in both test and live environments.
• Working knowledge and experience of electrical and mechanical systems.
• Experience of completing technical reports and reviewing technical data and drawings.
• Excellent communication and administration skills, both written and verbal.
• The ability to work under pressure and comply with strict timelines.
• Ability to work in accordance with HSE and SIA regulations.

Key Skills (desirable):

• Experience on radar, RF detectors and camera systems.
• Experience or interest in operating UAS (drones).
• Current knowledge and understanding of the threat landscape, emerging security threats and vulnerabilities.
• IT skills with proficiency in MS Teams and Office.

Why should you apply?

• Competitive Salary
• 25 days plus Bank Holidays
• Workplace Pension
• Discretionary Performance Bonuses
• Career Progression and Development
• Training courses including CAA regulated drone pilot’s licence
• SIA Licence

Purpose of Role:

Working with a small dynamic team you will be tasked with the development maintenance & testing of high quality, high security and high performance software according to agreed project plans.

You will work with the Lead/Senior developers when working on larger DevOps Technical Stories, to help generate the required Low Level Design (LLD) documentation and ensuring the Technical Story is broken down into distinct tasks that can be estimated and worked on independently.

During the development sprint you will then be responsible for ensuring those tasks that are assigned to you are completed and any task orchestration and testing takes place effectively.

Key Job Requirements:

• Assist in the development of elastic/cloud scale Command and Control applications
• Assist in the maintenance of existing customer systems through a bug triage and resolution process
• Ensure the use of code repositories and the branching strategy
• Assist in the distillation of complex designs into defined tasks and provide estimations
• Develop automated testing solutions and unit test coverage
• Create documents that adhere to the documentation standards for each stage of the software development lifecycle
• Adhere to the defined coding standards
• Ensure all code is stored in OSL approved source control systems
• Assist in the presentation of the teams work to all stakeholders where required

Qualifications/Key skills and qualities
Essential Skills/Experience

• Good understanding of Microsoft .NET C#
• Good understanding of Microsoft .NET Core
• Understanding of Microsoft SQL Server & database platforms
• Understanding of Microsoft Windows server
• Understanding of Azure DevOps for work management
• Understanding of Azure DevOps for source control including branching and pull requests

Nice to have Skills/Experience

• Understanding of Linux
• Understanding of agile ceremonies including standups, sprint planning and retrospectives
• Ability to problem solve and share best practice
• Able to question / challenge established process

Company:

Operational Solutions Limited (OSL) is an industry leading company at the forefront of Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS/Counter Drone) innovation and development in both the civilian and military environments. Due to expansion, we are now looking to recruit a Counter Drone Operator to join our existing Operations team on a full-time basis.

Purpose of Role:

The role involves being at the cutting edge of providing counter drone services to large scale international customers. In this role you will be primarily responsible for monitoring the counter drone system’s output. On detection of any unauthorised drones or personnel operating unlawfully in restricted areas, you will be the first line response liaising directly with the risk managers and decision makers responsible for safe operations at key international airports. You will also be required to liaise directly with police response teams and provide location information to enable them to intercept drone pilots and personnel acting unlawfully.

The post comes with job related training, a competitive salary package, a work pension and 33 days holiday.

Key Skills:

• Continual and vigilant monitoring of security systems using the software and hardware tools provided.
• Ability to analyse alerts and information generated by various security tools.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making capability.
• Exceptional discretion regarding use of highly sensitive and confidential documentation.
• Ability to correctly assess the severity of incidents and prioritise and escalate them as necessary.
• Interact with intrusion detection devices and other security systems via commercial consoles, both local and remote.
• Configure, operate and troubleshoot various IT and security tools.
• The ability to co-ordinate with technical, incident and supplier teams to ensure that all incidents are accurately prioritised, effectively managed and resolved within agreed timelines.
• Continually update stakeholders of status changes during issue resolution.
• Ability to provide cohesive, appropriate and timely responses to incidents, errors or faults as they occur.
• Excellent communication and administration skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate at all levels with clients and within the business.
• Comprehensive IT skills with proficiency in MS Teams and Office; particularly Excel, Word and Outlook with the aptitude to learn new, relatively complex systems.
• Organised and self-motivated, able to work using own initiative or as part of small, dedicated team following strict operational processes and procedures.

Additional Requirements:

Essential

• Flexibility to work shifts over a 24 hour / 7 day per week shift pattern.
• Legally able to be employed in the UK.
• Must be able to achieve UK SC Clearance.
• A full manual UK Driving Licence.
• Perform system administrative tasks defined within the Standard Operating Procedures.

Desired

• Previous experience of working within an Operations Room environment is desirable but not essential.
• Experience with social media monitoring, OSINT analysis and/or mapping software desirable but not essential.
• Maintain current knowledge and understanding of the threat landscape, emerging security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Assist in the development and enhancement of the system and its operation.
• Highly confident and approachable with the enthusiasm to maintain the highest personal and professional standards in a busy environment.

Company

Are you passionate about code, result-oriented, and always on the lookout for new trends in development? Do you aspire to work with innovative technologies?

Operational Solutions Limited (OSL) is a leading SME company which provides innovative solutions within the aviation, security, and military markets.

We are currently recruiting for a Front End Developer to develop, improve, and maintain our different platforms.

We provide a diverse range of products and technologies including counter-drone (CUAS) systems, UTM, synthetic environments, managed services, consultancy, R&D, and drone operations.

Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Front end Developers (Web UI Developer) to join the growing software development team. You will collaborate with other developers and business resources to deliver innovative solutions fitting in the overall development roadmap.

The successful candidate will report into the Lead Software Developer and be responsible for delivering quality solutions to deadline.

This is a highly rewarding role which requires an ability to work collaboratively across a diverse team in a highly dynamic and agile environment.

Core Responsibilities

• You will create and maintain reliable, scalable solutions as defined by the company’s technology road map.
• Ensure quality releases to customers with minimal downtime.
• Effective interaction with engineering team, suppliers, academia, and customers to achieve desired project outcomes.
• Creation and maintenance of engineering plans, ensuring products are engineered in a way that meets the design criteria.

Technical Experience

Essential Skills/Experience

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• CSS, HTML
• jQuery
• Unit testing
• Git
• React
• Vue

Desirable Skills/Experience

One or more of the following:

• Open Layers
• Azure DevOps experience
• Defence and Security experience
• C#
• Node.jjs
• UX prototyping (Figma, Zeplin etc.)
• LESS, and SASS

Qualifications/Key skills and qualities

• Experience with designing and developing complex software products
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to form strong relationships to influence stakeholders at all levels (both internally and externally)
• Ability to distil complex challenges into defined tasks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Reliable self-starter, with the ability to lead a team to achieve outcomes
• Ability to handle pressure and work to stipulated deadlines
• Current SC clearance or the ability to obtain it

Company

Operational Solutions Limited (OSL) is a leading SME company that provides innovative solutions within the aviation, security, and military markets.

We provide a diverse range of products and technologies including counter-drone (CUAS) systems, UTM, synthetic environments, managed services, consultancy, R&D, and drone operations.

Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Mid-level Software developer to join the growing software development team. You will collaborate with other developers and business resources to deliver innovative solutions fitting in the overall development roadmap.

The successful candidate will report into the Lead Software Developer and be responsible for delivering quality solutions to deadline.

This is a highly rewarding role that requires an ability to work collaboratively across a diverse team in a highly dynamic and agile environment.

Core Responsibilities

• You will create and maintain reliable, scalable solutions as defined by the company’s technology road map.
• Ensure quality releases to customers with minimal downtime.
• Effective interaction with engineering team, suppliers, academia, and customers to achieve desired project outcomes.
• Creation and maintenance of engineering plans, ensuring products are engineered in a way that meets the design criteria.

Technical Experience

Essential Skills/Experience

• C# (3-5 years)
• C++
• Experience in working in the Microsoft tech stack (3-5 years)
• SQL , Relational Databases( 2-5 years)
• GIT
• HTML
• CSS
• Unit testing
• JavaScript / jQuery

Desirable Skills/Experience

One or more of the following:

• Azure DevOps experience
• Understanding of Microsoft .NET Core
• Defence and Security experience
• Understanding of Microsoft Windows Server

Qualifications/Key skills and qualities

• Experience with designing and developing complex software products
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to form strong relationships to influence stakeholders at all levels (both internally and externally)
• Ability to distil complex challenges into defined tasks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Reliable self-starter, with the ability to lead a team to achieve outcomes
• Ability to handle pressure and work to stipulated deadlines
• Current SC clearance or the ability to obtain it

Purpose of the role: 

The Operations Department are responsible for the delivery of all OSL’s managed services contracts. OSL delivers a wide range of managed services from the monitoring of Counter Drone outputs for key international airports, simulation technician services in support of MoD training, and specialist communications equipment operation and maintenance.

The Contracts Operations Manager will ensure delivery of contractual obligations to customers and ensure successful management and co-ordination of service delivery. The postholder will be responsible for the end-to-end management of contracts in support of business objectives and business growth throughout the lifecycle of each contract.

The Operations Manager will report into the Director of Operations, who is accountable for overall service delivery to customers.

The ability to maintain security clearance at SC level is required for this role.

Key job requirements and responsibilities: 

Operational Contract Management

• Provide input to bids for services including solution/costs to meet SLAs
• Oversee and measure the fulfilment of contractual obligations and end-to-end service delivery of managed services contracts including:
  • Deliver contracted scope in full on schedule, meeting SLA
  • Issue notices in accordance with contract (eg customer non-delivery of dependencies, delays, service credits etc)
  • Document and adhere to SoPs
  • Use key performance indicators to monitor and challenge performance and identify continual improvement opportunities
  • Apply contractual change control for changes requested by customer or otherwise required
  • Manage third party suppliers’ performance (where used)
  • Oversee health, safety, environmental, information security, export control and other regulatory compliance within contracts
  • Maintain regular customer reporting and service review
  • Identify opportunities for up-sell of additional services
  • Continuous improvement of cost/ quality of service
• Manage and review internal operational performance targets against agreed service standards and implement improvement plans when required
• Review and seek improvements to service delivery through the effective supervision of service providers and directly employed staff.
• Work closely with the Commercial and Compliance Team to ensure compliance is met across all contracts
• Feed in to the Director of Operations, and wider Senior Leadership Team, information to enable strategic negation of contracts and ensure longevity of contracts
• Identify Third Party Risk and escalate issues to the Operations Director
• Act as point of contact for any customer issues and for providing advice to them
• Support Finance team with accurate invoicing of customers
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with clients and customers
• Notify the Business Development team of any new sales and cross selling opportunities

Team Leadership and Management

• Management of 3 MoD contracts, currently comprised of 38 people, in addition to site based Field Services and CUAS operators 10 people and Asset and Export Manager.
• Maintain staffing levels, train staff, monitor and improve staff performance
• Establish clear goals, performance metrics, and career development plans for these teams
• Support the recruitment, training, and retention of team members, ensuring the teams have the skills and resources needed to deliver on strategic objectives.

Qualifications / skills and experience  

• Demonstrable experience of operational services delivery in accordance with contracts
• Demonstrable experience in leading large operational teams
• Excellent business acumen
• Experience in contracts management including monitoring, risk management, impact mitigation and reporting
• Clear ability to develop effective personal relationships and commercial/business relationships
• Personally creative with the ability to generate practical ideas
• Well-developed planning and organisational skills
• Familiarity with export control desirable

Purpose of the Role: 

To deliver projects on time, in budget, and in scope to our customers (internal and external). We deliver innovative technology solutions to our customers in the counter drone industry.

Key Job Requirements & Responsibilities: 

• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of projects, including obtaining an unambiguous definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Effective leadership of the integrated project team including software development, engineering, delivery, and other roles.
• Coordination of customer and supplier members of extended project team.
• Creation and execution of project management plans, including ownership of schedules and forecasts.
• Ownership of development of Work Breakdown Structure and work packages, including coordination of subject matter expert inputs.
• Identification and management of project risks and issues.
• Change management.
• Provision of regular project status reports.
• Project budget management including forecasting, actuals, and variance.
• Adapting to change in a growing business in an emerging market.

Qualifications/ skills and experience  

Essential

• A proven track record of managing projects.
• Demonstrable technical understanding, whether through engineering degree, software hobby, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to form strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels (both internally and externally).
• Ability to distil complex challenges into defined tasks and able to produce and manage the resulting logical and succinct plan.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills articulating project blockers in a manner that enables management decisions to be taken.
• Reliable self-starter, with the ability to lead a team to achieve outcomes.
• Ability to handle pressure and work to stipulated deadlines.
• Adaptable, flexible, creative thinking, and supportive team player.
• Proven track record of managing projects in a matrix organisation.

Desirable

• Extensive demonstrable experience in a similar relevant role.
• Agile and waterfall project leadership.
• Azure DevOps.
• MS Project.
• Experience supporting and directing project teams including agile software developers and waterfall-focused engineers.
• Experience leading project interactions with customer and third-party project teams.
• Track record of successfully managing project budget and procurement.

Company

Operational Solutions Limited (OSL) is a leading SME company that provides innovative solutions within the aviation, security, and military markets.

We provide a diverse range of products and technologies including counter-drone (CUAS) systems, UTM, synthetic environments, managed services, consultancy, R&D, and drone operations.

Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Senior Software developer to join the growing software development team. You will collaborate with other developers and business resources to deliver innovative solutions fitting in the overall development roadmap.

The successful candidate will report into the Lead Software Developer and be responsible for delivering quality solutions to deadline.

This is a highly rewarding role that requires an ability to work collaboratively across a diverse team in a highly dynamic and agile environment.

Core Responsibilities

• You will create and maintain reliable, scalable solutions as defined by the company’s technology road map.
• Ensure quality releases to customers with minimal downtime.
• Effective interaction with engineering team, suppliers, academia, and customers to achieve desired project outcomes.
• Creation and maintenance of engineering plans, ensuring products are engineered in a way that meets the design criteria.

Technical Experience

Essential Skills/Experience

• C# (5+ years)
• C++
• Experience in working in the Microsoft tech stack (5+ years)
• SQL , Relational Databases(4+years)
• GIT
• HTML
• CSS
• Unit testing
• JavaScript / jQuery
• Understanding of Microsoft .NET Core
• Agile / Scrum methodology

Desirable Skills/Experience

One or more of the following:

• Azure DevOps experience
• Defence and Security experience
• Understanding of Microsoft Windows Server

Qualifications/Key skills and qualities

• Experience with designing and developing complex software products
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to form strong relationships to influence stakeholders at all levels (both internally and externally)
• Ability to distil complex challenges into defined tasks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Reliable self-starter, with the ability to lead a team to achieve outcomes
• Ability to handle pressure and work to stipulated deadlines
• Current SC clearance or the ability to obtain it

Package

• Remote working roles, but may involve travel for key events
• Flexible working arrangements
• Private medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Discounted gym membership