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About RC Fornax
RC Fornax is looking for a Systems Engineer to join a team delivering advanced maritime, naval and underwater sensing capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, lead and deliver systems engineering activities across the full engineering lifecycle for complex maritime, naval and sonar systems.
- Develop and maintain systems engineering strategies, plans, processes and artefacts in line with programme objectives and customer requirements.
- Lead and support system integration activities, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Define verification methods, test cases, acceptance criteria and compliance strategies to demonstrate system performance and requirement fulfilment.
- Capture, analyse and report engineering evidence from design, integration, verification, validation and qualification activities.
- Maintain robust requirements traceability throughout development, verification, validation and qualification phases.
- Support design reviews, customer acceptance events and engineering assurance activities.
- Identify, manage and communicate technical risks, issues and non-conformances.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing systems engineering processes, tools and best practices.
- Work closely with systems, software, hardware and project teams to support successful programme delivery.
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Required Experience & Skills
- Proven experience delivering systems engineering activities within defence, maritime, aerospace or other highly regulated and safety-critical industries.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles across the full lifecycle, including requirements management, architecture, integration, verification, validation and acceptance.
- Experience supporting IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification) activities for complex systems.
- Experience developing and applying engineering plans, verification strategies, test procedures and evidence-based assurance approaches.
- Familiarity with engineering lifecycle and requirements management tools such as DOORS, JIRA or equivalent platforms.
- Ability to analyse technical data and present engineering evidence, risks, issues and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience within sonar, underwater acoustic or naval systems programmes.
- Knowledge of defence systems integration and acceptance processes.
- Understanding of systems architecture modelling approaches.
- Experience supporting customer audits, design reviews and qualification activities.
- Familiarity with configuration management and change control processes.
- INCOSE knowledge or related systems engineering qualifications.
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Skills
Systems Engineering
Requirements Management
System Integration
Verification and Validation
IVVQ
Technical Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
DOORS
JIRA
Maritime Systems
Sonar Systems
Systems Architecture
Configuration Management
Engineering Assurance
Problem Solving
Analytical Skills