Job Description - Simulation & Training - System Design Authority (00124832)
Job Title: Simulation & Training – System Design Authority
Location: Portsmouth – Broad Oak. We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Circa 60,000 commensurate with skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
* Act as the Design and Technical Authority for assigned programmes, ensuring design integrity, safety, security, and compliance with all customer and contractual requirements
* Technically lead the development and delivery of training systems, guiding design processes, managing trade-offs, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
* Engage with external stakeholders and customers to shape and influence requirements, acting as a key technical ambassador for the engineering function
* Provide technical support to project managers by advising on risks, trade-offs, and solutions to balance technical delivery with cost and schedule
* Lead internal design reviews and represent the technical solution in governance forums, including LCM and external stakeholder reviews
* Support R&D, bid and proposal work, contributing to future product strategy, estimating, and technical solution development
Your Skills and Experiences:
* A Degree in engineering or a related discipline, with significant industry experience
* Chartered Engineer (CEng) status is desirable
* Proven ability to define and develop complex, software-intensive training systems, including integration of third-party applications and hardware components
* Strong experience in simulation or training systems design, with a good understanding of simulation techniques and virtualised networked environments
* Ability to communicate complex technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior external clients
* Demonstrated success in working with multi-disciplinary teams across systems, software, and hardware domains
* Knowledge of Lifecycle Management processes, including risk analysis, reliability, and maintainability principles
* Awareness of emerging technologies and how they may influence or enhance future training system solutions
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Closing Date: 24th April 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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