Senior Systems Engineer
This role is an exciting opportunity to join the Systems team with responsibility to lead space missions from LEO to GEO and beyond. Engineers have involvement on a mission from concept, through to AIT, launch, commissioning and operational life; a true cradle to grave experience, and will give you the chance to see your work in Space in a rapid timescale! The Systems Engineer role plays an essential part in leading other technical disciplines, to bring together quality and pragmatic solutions for innovative projects, whilst working within a great team environment.
Key Tasks
Working with the Sales and Engineering teams in support of bid / tender activities to generate technical solutions for a variety of customers.
System level design of space and ground segments including requirements analysis, sensitivity analysis, mission analysis and design trade-offs.
System engineering throughout all project phases:
Requirements management and engineering;
Preliminary and critical design phase activities, including mission conops development;
System / subsystem level interfacing and trade-offs;
System assembly and integration;
Test planning, requirement verification testing, and system validation;
System commissioning and operations.
Perform cost, risk, schedule and performance trades.
Lead / support technical studies for a variety of customers.
Review of technical work.
Mentoring of junior colleagues where necessary.
Understanding and improvi...