Roxel UK
Model Based Systems Engineer
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Roxel Production Engineer Job Description
Roxel is an Anglo-French Company that designs, develops, and manufactures a range of solid propellant rocket motors for use in tactical missiles. Its operations are spread across several sites in the UK and France and it has an annual turnover of about £100M and nearly 700 staff.
The UK operations are entirely based at Summerfield, Kidderminster where we now have a requirement for a permanent Production Engineer within the Operations Team.
To support business growth, the production engineering team at Roxel seeks talented and enthusiastic engineers to support current and future manufacturing capabilities.
About the Role
The manufacturing engineer is part of the Operation department structure and is pivotal in solving manufacturing issues, improving processes and methods with manufacturing teams, driving change and continuous improvement to improve shop floor safety, quality, productivity, and new product introduction.
Core Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the requirements management and systems engineering methodology, using established frameworks (e.g. NASA SE Handbook, INCOSE, ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 & 29148) as a base and modifying to suit the organisation’s scale and culture.
- Own and configure the ALM/requirements management system including definition, refinement & derivation, architecture, traceability, baselines, and change control.
- Build and champion the systems engineering capability of the wider engineering team through worked examples, mapped process diagrams, and hands-on training.
- Prototype and prove the process on development programs before scaling it across the business.
- Develop our ALM tool’s (Codebeamer) project architecture, mapping it to the systems engineering processes that you help develop.
- Define links between requirements and physical components, ensuring bidirectional traceability of all system components with their parent requirements/user needs.
- Perform any other duties necessary, as requested by the business to carry out job function.
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Qualifications
Essential Qualifications
- A formal qualification (degree or equivalent) in systems, aerospace, mechanical, or related engineering discipline.
Desirable Qualifications
- Professional membership / Chartered Engineer (CEng) of a relevant institute e.g., Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Royal Aeronautical Society, Institute of Explosive Engineers, etc.
Experience
Essential Experience
- Minimum of 3 years in an engineering team environment developing products to meet customer requirements.
- A sound understanding of systems engineering principles (ConOps, defining/refining requirements, interface definition, trade studies, verification & validation).
- Familiarity with the Systems Engineering V-Model and its application to the design process.
- Experience with an ALM tool (IBM DOORS, PTC Codebeamer, Siemens Polarion, Jama Connect).
- IT literate with experience of working with Microsoft Office tools (Power Point, Excel, Word, etc).
- An interest and aptitude in both the theory and practical aspects of engineering and in particular rocket motor design.
- An ability to assimilate and evaluate technical information from a wide range of disciplines with a high attention to detail.
- An ability to present complex problems clearly and logically to other specialist and non-specialist engineers.
- Experience working with safety-critical products and knowledge of regulatory standards requirements e.g. DEF STAN 07-085.
- Excellent document/report writing skills.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience using Codebeamer as a requirements management tool.
- Experience writing and refining requirements in a safety-critical aerospace environment.
- Full product lifecycle experience - taking a single product from concept to production (on the systems side of development).
Person Specification
- Demonstrates behaviours that align with Roxel’s values of ‘Commitment’, ‘Innovation’, ‘Trust’, and ‘Teamwork’.
- Proven ability to manage projects through the entire engineering development lifecycle.
- Motivated and driven to deliver results according to defined timescales and expected standards.
- Strong communicator with the ability to build relationships with the customer and other internal technical specialists.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Positive attitude and work ethic.
- Able to manage own time and prioritise tasks.
Applications for this role will be managed by Roxel’s recruitment partner, CBSbutler Holdings Limited (14941580). By applying for this role, you acknowledge that your application details and personal data will be shared with CBSbutler for recruitment purposes in accordance with UK GDPR and applicable data protection legislation.
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