This is an opportunity to establish yourself as a Principal Systems Engineer! A long-term key role within out clients structure. They are a supplier to the Royal Navy and global allies with a reputation for agility.
This role reports into the Project Manager (and functional Line Manager) and will work closely with the Systems Design Authority and Engineering Manager. As the PEL you will be overseeing the engineering throughout product development across Technology Levels, building upon existing products. You will be responsible for providing engineering leadership, supporting customer meetings and involved in hands-on engineering.
This is a Principal Systems Engineer level position suitable for an experienced engineering leader with demonstrable success of engineering management and team leadership, with an appreciation of mature complex engineering and experience of leading development across the product development lifecycle:
Expertise in Systems Engineering with an understanding of Software, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
An appreciation of designing complex products
Systems design experience
Experience of working throughout the development lifecycle (design through to integration, verification, validation, and qualification)
Expertise in trade-off analysis
Technology insertion (e.g. Urgent Capability Requirements)
Supporting to in-service products/systems and quality/issue resolution (e.g. experience of structured problem solving)
Experience of creating engineering schedules with dependencies
Experience of engineering estimation, with an ability to review, challenge and justify estimates
Experience of management of risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and opportunities
Expertise of managing a multidisciplinary team to deliver the scope of Work Packages to time and cost
Mature Engineering in accordance with a Business Management System
Awareness of security, export control and health safety
This role requires eligibility for Security Check (SC) UK EYES only with no caveats
Benefits on offer:
Optional 9 day fortnight
TOIL
Flexible working hours
1pm finish on a Friday
Annual bonus
Hybrid working for certain job roles.
Casual dress
25 days holiday
Christmas shut down.
Option to buy or sell holiday.
Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
4 x annual salary life cover
Pension starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee. You can select your employee contribution level from 4% to 70% (providing this sacrifice does not cause your salary to drop below the National Minimum Wage/ National Living Wage).
Please reach out to me for further details. I would recommend you applying even if you feel you aren't hitting all of the requirments