Senior/Principal/Lead Systems Engineer
50.58 PAYE, 66.74 Umbrella
Systems Engineer
Location: Rochester, Kent
Rate: 66.74 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.