Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Greenford

Duration: 6 months

Rate: Negotiable

The successful candidate will conduct systems engineering activities, either alone on a small project or as part of a larger project team, adhering to Engineering Function processes or project specific tailoring of those processes.

Systems Engineers will create and sustain successful, purposeful, systems that:

• Relate to the development and delivery of goods and services;
• Deliver real benefits to the company, suppliers and customers;
• Works with all technical domains, and all business functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivering allocated tasks within budget and to agreed timescales
• Conducting systems engineering tasks throughout the systems lifecycle, such as:
• Generating, understanding and reviewing user requirements documentation
  • Writing the requirements specifications
  • Developing and documenting system architecture
  • Developing and documenting systems design through system design specifications and interface specifications
  • Defining sub-systems and their requirements including hardware and software
  • Developing and continually refining the system acceptance strategy
  • Ensuring the specification, design and acceptance are fully traceable
  • System testing and reporting
  • Deriving, defining and documenting testing
  • Conducting integration testing
  • Conducting system testing (informal and formal)
• Configuration and data management
• Process compliance
• Adhere to the company's systems engineering processes and procedures
• Supporting the safety verification process as required
• Support planning through input to project schedule by estimating tasks and adhere to agreed estimates/timescales
• Providing regular and clear technical progress reports

Proven Ability / Key Skills

• Have significant proven ability in most of the following areas, with exposure to the others:
  • Requirements elicitation and management
  • System architecture and design
  • System integration and test
  • System acceptance, verification, and validation
  • In-service support
• Proficient with DOORS and MS Office (Visio, Project, Word, Excel), Windchill & IFS is desirable
• Has demonstrated the ability to plan and execute systems activities on complex projects
• Proven ability in communicating complicated topics clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences.

Additional

Due to the sensitive nature of the product all applicants must have worked within the Defence / Military industry within the last 12 months or be capable of obtaining Security Clearance (SC level minimum).