Senior/Principal Engineer – Systems Engineering (Integration, Verification and Validation)

Job Description

Job title: Senior/Principal Systems Engineer – IVV

Location: Various sites around the UK including Barrow-in-Furness, Manchester, Frimley, Bristol, Portsmouth, Weymouth and Brough.

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

This is an exciting opportunity to work on fast paced programmes and projects, helping us to design, develop, integrate, manage and support combat systems for in‑service and future submarines. This may include the development and support of our land-based integration, test and reference facilities.

You will be working with us to ensure that our technical solutions are clearly defined, integrated, configured, controlled, delivered and accepted. An understanding of relevant maritime legislation, industry & defence standards, will help us to ensure that our solutions are correctly configured, protected and safe to operate.

There are a number of interesting roles available across our UK offices, depending on your specific area of expertise and levels of experience. Hybrid working available in many of our roles.

What you’ll be doing:

·       Understanding our customers’ challenging needs and developing, validating and managing requirements designs and qualification/acceptance activities

·       Integrating systems containing electronic, mechanical and software sub-systems, understanding the potential impact on the whole boat and interfacing systems

·       Verifying that customer needs are satisfied through planned qualification and test activities

·       Taking accountability for technical work packages

·       Providing leadership, guidance and coaching to other engineers

·       Steering new systems development through implementation of best practice systems lifecycle processes

·       Working with customers to support delivered systems and resolve issues

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

·       Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience in industry/armed forces) in relevant STEM subject (Science / Technology / Engineering / Maths).

·       Significant experience in Systems Integration, Validation, Verification activities of complex products and systems

·       Understanding of relevant engineering standards, including safety and environmental regulations

Desirable:

Experience undertaking other Systems Engineering activities. This should include some combination of:

·       Requirements Engineering and Management (DOORs)

·       Systems Architecting via Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) (Sparx Enterprise Architect, Cameo, UML, SysML, MoDAF, NAF, UAF)

·       Implementing and Governing Engineering Lifecycles

·       Defining and managing System interfaces

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work, Green Car scheme and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Systems Engineering teams:

Our broad range of Systems teams cover all aspects of the products design throughout its lifecycle implementing a variety of tool and techniques tailored to support the specialist requirements of our products. From Agile methodologies to a Model Based Approach to Systems Engineering we are keen in maintaining our role as a leader in the field of Defence engineering by investing in our people.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 13th December 2023

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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