Key Responsibilities:
Represent the Systems discipline as a senior member, owning the assigned work packages and tasking to deliver obligations and commitments to agreed processes, plans, quality, schedule, and budget.
Support the Systems Lead and Engineering Project Lead (EPL) in executing project engineering obligations within agreed plans, budget, and schedule.
Develop technical solutions to large and complex engineering problems using Systems Engineering practices, principles, and processes to meet customer requirements.
Quantify and implement technical and management processes to achieve desired solutions, delivering Systems Engineering IVV artefacts across the development lifecycle.
Provide technical direction and influence across numerous project work packages, ensuring optimal approaches, architecture, design, and implementation choices.
Collaborate closely with system, hardware, firmware, and software architects to ensure consistency, modularity, reuse, and technical excellence.
Plan, coordinate, and present conclusive design reviews to senior management and customers, ensuring clarity and quality for successful events.
Lead, manage, and report on Systems aspects of project work packages, balancing requirements, solutions, schedules, and costs.
Manage customers and external suppliers to define and achieve expectations and objectives.
Ensure and review technical/task proposals, providing accurate estimates for effort, costs, and risks for bids and proposals leading to contract awards.
Work closely with other discipline leads, project management, and engineering project leads to create cost-effective and high-margin proposals.
Review and sign off significant technical documents, supporting the technical review chair as needed.
Manage information security as specified in the Security manual to comply with Government regulations.
Job Requirements:
Experience in Systems Engineering, particularly within IVV (Integration, Verification, and Validation)
Strong technical leadership and project management skills
Proficiency in developing technical solutions for complex engineering problems
Capability to influence various project work packages
Excellent collaboration skills with system, hardware, firmware, and software architects
Ability to plan and present thorough design reviews
Understanding of managing customers and external supplier relationships
Knowledge of creating, reviewing, and approving technical and task proposals
Adherence to information security regulations and standards
If you have the relevant skills and experience in Systems Engineering IVV and are looking for a challenging contract role within the defence sector, we encourage you to apply now
Salary description
£550.00 - £600.00 per day