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Senior Systems Engineer
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / Farnborough (3 days onsite)
Rate: £700 - £750 per day (Inside IR35)
Skills
- Systems Engineering
- Requirements Engineering
- Systems Architecture
- MBSE
- SysML
We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Senior Systems Engineer for a leading technology consultancy on an initial 6 month contract.
This is a senior, technically focused Systems Engineering position with responsibility for defining and applying appropriate systems engineering approaches across a significant project. You will work closely with technical leads, project managers and customer stakeholders, while also providing guidance and direction to more junior Systems Engineers.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the application of Systems Engineering principles across complex technical projects.
- Define appropriate Systems Engineering processes, methods and deliverables.
- Elicit, analyse and manage stakeholder and system requirements.
- Support system architecture, system design and requirements engineering activities.
- Determine appropriate modelling and analysis approaches.
- Produce and assure technical documentation, engineering plans, specifications and design outputs.
- Provide technical leadership to other Systems Engineers and review engineering deliverables.
- Work closely with senior technical, programme and customer stakeholders.
- Ensure designs and engineering activities meet relevant regulatory, safety, security and technical standards.
- Identify technical risks and issues and develop appropriate mitigation approaches.
- Support systems engineering management across the wider project lifecycle.
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- 7-10+ years' experience within Systems Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Strong understanding of Systems Engineering lifecycle processes and methodologies.
- Experience across areas such as requirements engineering, system design, modelling, verification, validation or systems engineering management.
- Strong understanding of stakeholder requirements, system requirements, specifications and system design documentation.
- Experience working on medium-to-large scale complex engineering programmes.
- Ability to define appropriate Systems Engineering approaches rather than simply following established processes.
- Strong technical documentation, stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring junior engineers.
- Understanding of engineering assurance, safety, security, cost and schedule considerations.
- Previous experience within Defence, Government or another highly regulated engineering environment.
- Maritime domain knowledge would be highly advantageous.
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent engineering experience.
- CEng or equivalent professional standing is highly desirable.
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