Job Description

Aerospace Systems Engineer   

Location: Wiltshire

• Assisting with the day-to-day leadership and management of engineering and technical teams to deliver integrated engineering outputs that meet the customer’s requirements.
• Ensuring that Systems Engineering gains and retains a ‘world class’ standard through continuous improvement.
• Working as a key member of the Systems/Project Engineering team.
• Ensuring delivery of integrated activities to contracted time, cost and quality.
• Ensuring a consistent approach to the integration of engineering outputs across all platform tasks.
• Ensuring consistency of technical processes, methods and tools for the delivery stream ensuring a coherent integration of engineering activity to meet customer requirements.
• Effective capture and analysis of customer requirements.
• Assisting with the coordination of bids and estimates, generation of technical/solution strategies (e.g. Evaluation & Test Strategy) and work breakdown structures to support project cost plans and bids.
• Assisting with the production of appropriate Technical Assurance plans and ensuring adherence throughout the project life cycle.
• Assisting with the identification of project technical risks and assisting the Project Manager with the management of them.
• Compliance with business processes and engineering governance.

Qualification & Experiences:

• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer, or evidence of progress towards Professional Registration with a PEI
• Relevant Engineering degree
• Experience of applying system engineering toolsets and paradigms such as IBM DOORS, MBSE, V & V, etc.
• Knowledge of the MOD customer and MOD Procurement process
• Knowledge of air systems at platform level
• Excellent people leadership and communication skills
• Sound knowledge and experience of applying general Systems Engineering principles.
• Technical experience throughout the air vehicle life cycle
• Ability to make sound judgements and decisions on integrated solutions
• Sound knowledge of technical governance
• Knowledge of aircraft certification and systems design
• Aerospace Engineering Background with a track record of relevant technical activity delivery.