Location
Rochester, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
Senior/Principal/Lead Systems Engineer
GBP50.58 PAYE, GBP66.74 Umbrella
Systems Engineer
Location: Rochester, Kent
Rate: GBP66.74 ph Umbrella
Duration: 12 Months
SC Clearance required
As a member of the Systems team you will play a key part in the development and supply of products across a diverse mix of commercial and military platforms Head Up and Head Worn Displays, Safety Critical Pilot Control and Flight Control Systems.
We are currently looking for a talented engineer to provide technical expertise supporting our helmet
mounted display product line. This challenging role involves:
• Providing technical direction for the product support programmes.
• Leading investigations into product failures and faults.
• Support safety investigations and support corrective action resolution.
• Managing improvements to the product documentation.
• Technical consultation with the customer, manufacturing and the repair shop.
Your role will involve:
• Understanding operational scenarios and complex customers needs to specify and manage
• requirements at multiple levels.
• Maintaining and supporting existing in service products.
• Steering improved design changes to address obsolescence and REACH impacts.
• Supporting enhanced fault investigation activities.
• Leading root cause analysis.
• Making use of best practice systems lifecycle processes alongside techniques such as Learn First and Agile. Providing a role model to others with clear technical and strategic guidance, coaching and nurturing talent in other engineers.
Your skills and qualifications:
• Significant proven experience developing and delivering systems in relevant product markets and/or domains, such as optical display units (Helmets/HUD s etc.), safety critical control systems, real time displays or other safety related systems, containing multiple technical disciplines such as electronics, mechanics, optics and/or software.
• Proven experience in requirements management, design analyses, modelling and simulation, using tools such as DOORS and/or Siemens Polarion.
• Proven experience in integration, test and verification of real time and/or safety related systems, with understanding of safety assessment and/or flight clearance processes including how these processes influence the product architecture and design.
• Proven ability to connect and maintain effective interpersonal networks internally and across the community including significant customer and/or supplier liaison experience for technical aspects, verifying and obtaining agreement that customer needs are satisfied.
• Proven ability to work with minimal guidance and make sound strategic decisions whilst collaborating to ensure the team understand, co–operate and support those decisions, taking responsibility for interdependent technical work package execution and associated outcomes.
It would be beneficial to have:
• Familiarisation with Civil or Military Aviation design and safety standards.
• Model Based Systems Engineering experience with tools such as Cameo, MATLAB and/or
• Simulink and design methodologies such as SysML.
• An understanding of information assurance, cyber security and/or environmental impact aspects relating to real time embedded engineering products.
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