Date Posted:
2024-12-18
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
GBR13: Home - Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA
Position Role Type:
Unspecified
Systems Engineer
Hybrid – UK wide travel as needed
About us
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do.
Our business
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.
With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK, we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.
The role
Raytheon UK are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer with a background in defence or aerospace who is ideally knowledgeable about training development to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of requirements management, system design, interface management, integration, verification, validation (IV&V), and product qualification.
The ideal candidate will have to be sufficiently flexible to perform in different contexts. Some tasking may be primarily internal, working within a matrix team to develop procurement strategies and to mature requirements for training devices which they will then assist in taking through a procurement cycle. Other tasking may be centred on managing, for Raytheon, the activities of a sub-contractor undertaking detailed design and build of a training device.
The successful candidate will have access to professional development opportunities and be part of the growing Defence Business in Raytheon UK, delivering engineering expertise across a wide range of projects to both military and civil customers worldwide.
This will be a hybrid role with the expectation that both Raytheon site and Customer site attendance will be required at times. This is expected to be around 20% of your time.
Main Duties:
The successful applicant will support the required capability. This role has the following main duties:
* Working with the Training Solution Delivery Lead to define work packages and technical requirements.
* Individually contribute to the execution and delivery of key work packages.
* Undertaking activities associated with product specification and qualification.
* Collaborate with cross functional teams to assist in the procurement and implementation of advanced training devices.
* Contributes to problem resolution at a team level.
* Contributes to and helps improve planned system operation.
* Create and maintain documentation for system configurations, processes and procedures.
* Supporting and completing bid responses both at the Pre-Qualifying (PQQ) and Tender (ITN) stages.
* Carrying out Systems analysis and design work.
* Technical design reviews, oversight and governance.
* Supporting Customer questions and requests.
Candidate Requirements:
Essential:
* A relevant degree or equivalent training and at least 7 years of relevant experience.
* Strong experience in systems engineering, ideally on all sections of the V-model.
* Experience with systems engineering technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques.
* Experience writing scopes of work and acceptance criteria.
* Knowledge of the development of Systems of Systems.
* Ability to work in a collaborative, multi-discipline environment to produce deliverable products.
* Experience with Atlassian suite, working with Jira, Confluence, Dimension RM and DOORS.
* Hands-on experience with configuration management tools.
* Has, or is able to obtain, security clearance.
* Valid driving licence.
Desirable:
* Experience of training devices.
* Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
* Awareness of NAFv4 and/or TOGAF.
Competitive Benefits and Work Culture
Benefits:
* Competitive salaries.
* 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days.
* Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
* Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
* 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
* Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes.
* Enhanced sick pay.
* Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
* Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role).
* Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade).
Work Culture:
* 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
* Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
* Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities.
* A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed.
* Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Raytheon UK, we are committed to fostering a workplace that champions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) as fundamental pillars of our organisational culture.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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