Safran Engineering Services
Principal System Engineer

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Principal Systems Engineer - 6 months contract Inside IR35
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
£50-70 p/hr (Inside IR35) - Depending on experience.
6 month contract - Initial term
Description
In order to develop and expand the capabilities of our engineering business, we are looking to recruit a Principal Systems Engineer to work on aircraft landing gear systems. The contract duration is six months, with a standard workweek of 37 hours and located in Gloucester.
Military clearance is not required for this role. The anticipated start date is as soon as possible.
As a Systems Engineer, you will:
- Ensure that the development of aircraft landing gear systems (structures, extension/retraction systems, hydraulics, electrical harnesses) is compliant with customer needs and compliant with regulations, following the Safran system development process
- Focus on the definition of the system development plan, capture and analysis of needs, the generation of system, sub-systems and equipment requirements, requirements validation and product verification
- Be responsible for management of equipment suppliers, such as actuators, hydraulic hoses and electrical harnessing
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Key aspects of this job include the following:
- In collaboration with Systems Architecture Integration team, supporting the definition of systems development plans, in accordance with Safran processes, which align with ARP4754.
- Ensure adherence to systems development plans
- Manage requirements definition, from capture and analysis of customer, regulatory and internal needs at system, sub-systems and equipment level
- Manage the validation of requirements in collaboration with requirement owners from the validation planning phase, through implementation of validation means to documenting validation evidence
- Manage product verification, from the verification planning phase, through coordination of verification means to documenting verification evidence
- Set up and maintaining requirements management tools, e.g. IBM DOORS classic & DOORS NG
- Compile systems engineering related documentation (requirements documentation, description documents, validation and verification matrices and Declaration of Design Performance (DDP) dossiers
- Specification writing for Aircraft Landing Gear equipment such as, hydraulic actuators, hydraulic hoses and electrical harnesses
- Technical liaison with equipment suppliers
- Leadership of senior and junior systems engineers


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Requirements
- Knowledge of aircraft landing gear systems (ATA32)
- Knowledge of Systems Engineering principles
- Experience of mechanical engineering and hydraulics (Actuators & Hoses)
- Hydromechanical / hydropneumatics experience is mandatory
- Knowledge of airworthiness requirements and certification
- Experience of systems engineering theory together with a familiarity with ARP4754 and ARP 4761
- Experience of requirements management, validation, verification and preferably DOORS
- Knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering is an advance
- Ability to review engineering documents such as (Reports, Analysis, Specifications and Requirements docs etc..). Previous engineering signatory held.
- Ability to write technical reports clearly and accurately
- Ability and willingness to communicate and work with all disciplines of engineering
- Good verbal and written communication skills and general computer literacy
- Communication skills at all levels / Team working / Attention to detail / Decision making / Problem solving / Leadership
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