Subsea Craft
Senior Systems Engineer
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Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 DOE
Full Time
Permanent
Who we are:
SubSea Craft is a fast-growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems.
What we offer:
- Pension Contribution – Pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice.
- Annual Bonus Scheme – Eligibility to participate in the company’s annual discretionary bonus scheme, linked to individual and company performance.
- Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
- Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
- Wellbeing Day – An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
- Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
- Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Flexible Working Opportunities
- Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to lead in the development and integration of complex maritime defence systems throughout the full engineering lifecycle.
Responsibilities will include:
- Elicit, analyse and manage stakeholder needs and craft verifiable system requirements with quality attributes and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with subject matter experts (SMEs) to decompose user requirements into system and design requirements.
- Establish and maintain traceability between user requirements, system design and testing to ensure alignment throughout the full Verification and Validation lifecycle.
- Develop system context, use cases, functional, physical and logical architectures and interface control documents that align with maritime defence requirements.
- Define Verification plans, test strategies and test cases. Ensure system elements developed across different engineering disciplines are effectively integrated into a coherent system solution.
- Facilitate communication and shared understanding across multidisciplinary engineering teams by applying lifecycle frameworks such as the V-Model.
- Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, ensuring the reliability and resilience of deployed systems. Specifically, FMEA and FTA.
- Ensure that developed systems comply with relevant maritime defence standards and regulations.
- Provide mentoring to junior members of the team to support career development.
- The post holder is required to be aware of and fulfil those roles and responsibilities applicable to them contained within SP02 Health, Safety and Environmental Roles and Responsibilities.
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Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- Significant experience in engineering with a focus on the maritime defence sector.
- Experience with relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards for marine systems and equipment. In particular, experience designing for class approval against Lloyds Register or DNV-GL is beneficial.
- Strong knowledge of maritime defence technologies.
- Proven experience throughout the design, development, and testing stages of maritime platforms.
- A working knowledge of the Systems Modelling Language (SysML).
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Values:
Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.
Note:
Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.
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