Qualifications

Essential:

• Degree, HNC/HND, or equivalent qualification in Systems Engineering, Electrical, Electronic, Software, Marine, Mechanical Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Demonstrable senior-level systems engineering experience on complex integrated engineering programmes.

Desirable:

• Chartered Engineer (CEng), Incorporated Engineer (IEng), or working towards professional registration.
• INCOSE ASEP/CSEP certification, or equivalent formal systems engineering training / accreditation.
• Member of an appropriate professional engineering institution such as INCOSE, IET, IMechE, RINA, or equivalent.
• Current UK Security Check (SC) clearance, or eligibility to obtain clearance if required by the project.

Essential Skills

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to understand complex interactions, dependencies, and design implications at system level.
• High attention to detail and a disciplined approach to requirements, interfaces, configuration, and technical data.
• Strong engineering judgement and confidence making evidence-based recommendations within a controlled design environment.
• Ability to take ownership of complex systems engineering work packages and drive them to an agreed level of maturity.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability, including the ability to identify inconsistencies and resolve ambiguous technical information.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively across suppliers and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Ability to challenge technical information constructively while maintaining collaborative working relationships.
• A delivery-focused mindset with the ability to maintain quality, traceability, and configuration discipline across a fast-moving engineering programme.

Experience

Required Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Significant systems engineering experience within complex defence, marine, aerospace, or other multidisciplinary engineering programmes.
• Demonstrable experience generating and maintaining system architectures for complex integrated systems.
• Strong experience of requirements management, requirements traceability, and management of requirements acceptance / compliance databases, preferably using IBM DOORS.
• Practical experience developing, reviewing, and managing Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and structured interface data.
• Experience generating and maintaining System Definition Documents or equivalent system-level design documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of configuration management, baseline management, and engineering change control within a controlled engineering environment.
• Experience using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems, preferably Windchill, to manage product data, configuration items, and controlled engineering information.
• Experience supporting systems engineering activities across the lifecycle, including design, integration, verification, validation, and acceptance.
• Excellent technical communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate complex information across multidisciplinary engineering teams and suppliers.

Desirable Experience

Ideally candidates will possess experience in one or more of the following:

• Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, or other naval platform programmes.
• Mission system integration involving command and control, communications, navigation, radar, sonar, sensors, data networks, or other complex electronic systems.
• Engineering programmes progressing from design baseline through installation, integration, trials, and acceptance.
• Hands-on use of IBM DOORS, Windchill, and Microsoft Visio within a configuration-controlled engineering programme.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, or architecture modelling using tools such as Cameo, Enterprise Architect, or equivalent.
• Requirements verification, validation, and acceptance planning, including management of objective evidence and acceptance status.
• Review and reconciliation of supplier technical data, design artefacts, and subsystem engineering outputs against a system-level baseline.
• Management of technical queries, deviations, concessions, waivers, or engineering change requests.
• Design Authority, Technical Authority, or systems integration organisations.
• Configuration audits, baseline reviews, design maturity reviews, or technical governance activities.
• Defence engineering environments involving formal assurance, safety, security, and configuration control requirements.

Key Technical Knowledge

The successful candidate should have practical knowledge of:

• Systems architecture development, including functional, logical, physical, and interface architecture views.
• Requirements capture, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification, and acceptance management.
• IBM DOORS or equivalent requirements management tools and structured requirements databases.
• Interface definition and control, including ICDs, interface registers, interface data, and interface change management.
• System Definition Documents and other system-level technical baseline documentation.
• Configuration management principles, configuration baselines, status accounting, and engineering change control.
• Product Lifecycle Management principles and tools, including Windchill or equivalent PLM environments.
• Microsoft Visio or equivalent tools for development and maintenance of system architecture and interface diagrams.
• Systems engineering lifecycle processes, including V-model development, integration, verification, validation, and acceptance.
• System-level change impact assessment and management of dependencies across requirements, interfaces, architecture, and acceptance.
• Technical data management, document control, and maintenance of authoritative engineering information.
• Design reviews, architecture governance, interface management, and configuration review processes.