Senior Principal Systems Engineers

Senior Principal Systems Engineers (Tools Group) :

International Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit two Senior Principal Systems Engineers as result of sustained business growth.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The salary on offer is £50k - £55k + Great Benefits including 15% Annual Bonus, Flexitime, Healthcare and Pension.

Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Job Description:

Provision of “in-project” support to Systems Engineering methods activities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing in-project consultancy style support to key projects, in particular during their start-up phase, tailored to project needs to ensure maximum project benefit is obtained from best practice use
• Act as an expert on all aspects of systems engineering and provide projects with access to such expertise.
• Provide support to technical reviews and investigations to projects
• Assessing current expertise relating to core Systems Engineering techniques and developing/delivering process improvement and behavioural change to teams.
• Supporting implementation of international alignment on SE knowledge and expertise (International and National based)
• Ability to understand and implement MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) concepts into practising projects.
• Ensuring consideration of a full lifecycle approach to the design of weapon systems into project teams.
• Generation and delivery of training and education to material to project teams on a national and international level.
• Carry out investigations into a full range of problems, issues or developments and develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of a project team.
• Manage and report against the group’s work programmes, including analysis of risk, to ensure the group delivers its accountabilities

Performance Indicators:

• Positive feedback from project systems designers with relation to technical advice and guidance provided
• Formal assessment against PLCE and MBSE milestones.
• Implementation of ‘Best Practice’ across projects
• Delivery of appropriate training to Project Systems Engineers

Experience/Skills:

• Expert in Systems Engineering.
• A sound understanding of state of the art systems engineering tools and techniques and their application in the systems engineering domain
• Significant experience of full lifecycle issues from concept through to disposal on major projects
• Significant understanding of design for cost and the effect of through life cost issues
• Capable of working autonomously and proactively
• Previous experience of any of the following would be ideal; DOORS , UML, SysML , Matlab , Simulink , MODAF or Rhapsody
• Excellent communication skills are essential
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, plus a number of years relevant experience