Senior Systems Engineer - Integration and Trials

Leonardo has a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to work on a high–profile project for the UK MOD. The Senior Systems Engineer will join the Combat Air business group and a role within the Systems Engineering team will provide exposure to a wide–variety of Electronic Warfare (EW) products and subject–matter experts within domain, product, and technology fields.

The Senior Systems Engineer will contribute their knowledge and experience to the system integration, test, verification, validation and trials activities, to support the agreed project milestones.

The role inherently requires a strong aptitude for problem solving and managing multiple system interdependencies across a number of Leonardo business groups.

Teamwork: You will work alongside like–minded professional engineers in a highly collaborative environment.
Manage day–to–day tasking of more junior engineers supporting Integration activities:
Opportunity to develop mentoring and coaching skills and lead sub–system level testing and evaluation in a laboratory environment.
Produce / document / analyse test data.
Supporting engineering design reviews, in particular test readiness
Achieving acceptance / certification from relevant design authorities.
Provision of sub–system functional knowledge to direct system testing.
Ensuring evidence accumulation from System–level activity.
Support to the definition and undertaking of system acceptance test procedures.
Deriving interface / functional design requirements.
Supporting software/hardware teams with development of low–level functionality.
Engaging with customer network to ensure cohesion and suitability of integration activities and timelines.
Supporting development of the overall system trials strategy.

A solid foundation in a relevant technical domain, exploited in an airborne (ideally EW) systems context / application.
Experience of performing IV&V activities, including authoring test plans, procedures and reports.
Demonstrable experience in writing and reviewing high–quality technical documentation.
Experience of engineering gate reviews and the associated assessment of design compliance.
Ability to cope with a high degree of design complexity and significant levels of uncertainty.
Experience of supporting design / delivery teams to develop complex, technical solutions in accordance with plans and processes.
Self–motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and driving difficult issues to conclusion.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Experience of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities.
Ability to obtain SC Clearance for UK–caveated programmes.

It would be nice if you had:

Experience with product design and test standards for military systems.
Experience of Synthetic Environments and their use in developing the overall engineering solution.
Experience of mentoring junior engineers