Job Description

Our client is a leading defence contractor within global defence, security, and critical national infrastructure markets, playing a major role in the development and sustainment of naval combat systems for both the Royal Navy and overseas navies. It acts variously as a customer friend, third party assessor, system integrator, and product supplier.

We are seeking to further bolster their capabilities by recruiting a Combat Systems Engineer in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Key Activities:

• You will undertake technical work activities within a systems engineering context
• Work as part of a technical team in support of project objectives
• Assist in the production of technical documentation in support of work carried out
• Engaging with stakeholders, project managers and senior technical staff to ensure customer and business needs are satisfied appropriately and problems are mitigated

You will be advising on:

• How combat systems should be developed, acquired and evolved
• Test, evaluation and acceptance of combat systems and their constituent equipment
• The identification and rectification of defects such as those encountered during operational service.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant engineering/systems engineering experience
• Knowledge of some specific areas of a combat system such as weapon systems, command systems, comms, EW, sonar and other sensors, navigation equipment etc.
• Knowledge of integration, test and acceptance activities
• Experience in product/system design/evolution
• Ability to identify delivery and technical issues, adherence to work plans and schedules, reporting of progress, issues etc. to more senior staff.
• Hold or be eligible to gain UK gov security clearance.