Principal Systems Engineer
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
-
Dorset
South West EnglandUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 18 May 2022
- Closes
- 15 Jun 2022
- Job Title
- IT Director
- Category
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
This is an extremely exciting opportunity for you to play a pivotal role in the development of our next generation of large Anti–Submarine Warfare and Torpedo Defence systems for the Naval Market. Ultra has been highly successful in winning several large programmes and need experienced and creative systems engineers at all levels to contribute to the success of our new family of products.
Depending on your experience, preferences and career development goals, your key activities could cover all aspects of the systems engineering lifecycle. You can expect utilize your experience to lead the development of functional and non–functional requirements; architecting a coherent and compelling product; producing system and subsystem specifications; developing, defining and performing verification and validation activities at subsystem and system levels.
Ultra offers a choice of home site, as well as flexible home working. In addition, we will help you achieve your goals by continuous professional development and regular career progression sessions.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
As a senior member of the Systems Engineering team, you will:
* Take on Project Engineering Lead role, responsible for ensuring the project engineering team develop and deliver a solution that is technically and commercially acceptable.
* Ensure that the technical solution meets the customer, legislative and business requirements.
* Ensure that the technical solution is designed, developed and then supported in accordance with the company processes and procedures.
* Support product certification and compliance approval (all technical aspects, including contractual & legislative).
* Deliver the systems engineering tasks for a project within on time and on budget, including work package management.
* Generate, understand, and review user requirements.
* Perform requirement analysis and flow down to system and sub–system levels.
* Develop and document system architecture, design, and acceptance and verification strategies.
* Ensure that specification, design, and acceptance information is fully traceable.
* Provide input to project schedules through regular and clear progress reports.
* Support bids by providing technical solutions, estimates, and plans.
Skills, Qualification and Experience
You will have previous experience of systems engineering, ideally in a naval/defence environment and can show:
* Experience in negotiating and agreeing system requirements with customers and stakeholders.
* Experience of technical leadership of multi–disciplinary teams.
* Requirements management using IBM DOORs or similar tool
* A good appreciation of mechanical, electrical and software engineering principals.
* Supported by a degree or equivalent in a relevant subject (Engineering or Computer Science), ideally with CEng status.
Personal Attributes
* Good team player, with a proactive, collaborative approach and an ability to motivate others.
* Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
* Good time management and ability to switch efficiently from one task to another.
* Stable performer under pressure.
* Strong analytical and problem–solving skills.
* Able to present complex information to senior managers and customers in a clear and concise fashion.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to express ideas, share technical information and communicate at all levels and across different cultures.
* Be willing to coach/mentor members of the team to aid and monitor their development, providing feedback to performance reviews.
* Demonstrates strong initiative in attempts to influence events to achieve goals.
* The role is office based with occasional travel to other company/customer's sites in the UK or abroad.
* Must have or be able to achieve SC clearance
Depending on your experience, preferences and career development goals, your key activities could cover all aspects of the systems engineering lifecycle. You can expect utilize your experience to lead the development of functional and non–functional requirements; architecting a coherent and compelling product; producing system and subsystem specifications; developing, defining and performing verification and validation activities at subsystem and system levels.
Ultra offers a choice of home site, as well as flexible home working. In addition, we will help you achieve your goals by continuous professional development and regular career progression sessions.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
As a senior member of the Systems Engineering team, you will:
* Take on Project Engineering Lead role, responsible for ensuring the project engineering team develop and deliver a solution that is technically and commercially acceptable.
* Ensure that the technical solution meets the customer, legislative and business requirements.
* Ensure that the technical solution is designed, developed and then supported in accordance with the company processes and procedures.
* Support product certification and compliance approval (all technical aspects, including contractual & legislative).
* Deliver the systems engineering tasks for a project within on time and on budget, including work package management.
* Generate, understand, and review user requirements.
* Perform requirement analysis and flow down to system and sub–system levels.
* Develop and document system architecture, design, and acceptance and verification strategies.
* Ensure that specification, design, and acceptance information is fully traceable.
* Provide input to project schedules through regular and clear progress reports.
* Support bids by providing technical solutions, estimates, and plans.
Skills, Qualification and Experience
You will have previous experience of systems engineering, ideally in a naval/defence environment and can show:
* Experience in negotiating and agreeing system requirements with customers and stakeholders.
* Experience of technical leadership of multi–disciplinary teams.
* Requirements management using IBM DOORs or similar tool
* A good appreciation of mechanical, electrical and software engineering principals.
* Supported by a degree or equivalent in a relevant subject (Engineering or Computer Science), ideally with CEng status.
Personal Attributes
* Good team player, with a proactive, collaborative approach and an ability to motivate others.
* Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
* Good time management and ability to switch efficiently from one task to another.
* Stable performer under pressure.
* Strong analytical and problem–solving skills.
* Able to present complex information to senior managers and customers in a clear and concise fashion.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to express ideas, share technical information and communicate at all levels and across different cultures.
* Be willing to coach/mentor members of the team to aid and monitor their development, providing feedback to performance reviews.
* Demonstrates strong initiative in attempts to influence events to achieve goals.
* The role is office based with occasional travel to other company/customer's sites in the UK or abroad.
* Must have or be able to achieve SC clearance