Systems Engineer - Marine Systems

Key Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyse, and manage stakeholder and system requirements, ensuring traceability across the lifecycle.
• Develop system architectures and design artefacts, including functional, logical, and physical views.
• Support decomposition of requirements from system to subsystem and component levels.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and integration teams to ensure coherent and feasible system designs.
• Support verification and validation planning, ensuring requirements are testable and aligned to acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to documentation and governance artefacts in line with MOD and industry standards.
• Examine key design drivers, standards and requirements.

Here’s What You’ll Need

• Degree qualification in Marine Engineering (or related subject such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering etc) at either Bachelor’s or Master’s level;
• Be a Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, or show evidence of ongoing CPD towards Chartered status;
• Proven ability to solve complex marine systems engineering problems, including/such as trade-off analysis and design trade studies.
• Experience in marine or naval systems engineering, ideally on warship or submarine design studies (especially surface combatants).
• Experience of working on naval ship studies and design activity during ship acquisition. Specifically, translating customer ideas and capability requirements, into design solutions and exploiting Defence Standards to shape/define design elements;
• Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams and able to obtain a security clearance.

Experience:

• Proven experience as a Marine Systems Engineer within Defence or complex system environments with a strong understanding of marine systems engineering principles and lifecycle models (e.g. V-model, Agile, hybrid approaches).
• Experience of working with stakeholders to determine their needs and generating the highest level of system requirements, based on the users' needs and other constraints;
• Ability, experience and proof of producing high quality, well-structured and logically written reports within tight timescales that clearly communicate an understanding of the task, the work carried out, conclusions and recommendations made to the sponsor;

Our Culture

Our values are built on a strong foundation of safety, integrity, and respect for every individual. People are at the heart of our mission, and we believe in supporting one another through a culture of care and collaboration. We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. Supporting mental wellbeing and fostering a sense of connection are essential to how we work. When we embrace different perspectives and work together, we become more innovative, more agile, and more successful.

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