Hours: 37 hours per week (Due to classification this is a 2 or 3 days on site role) Do you want to join a business, who value inclusivity, a three-time gold investor in people award winner, an advocate of supporting women in engineering and developing their people to be the best they can be? The Functional Validation & Verification Lead will drive the UK programme element for the functional systems engineering team on major international export contract. The Functional Validation & Verification lead reports into a Chief Systems Engineer via the Certification Lead, working to deliver an important military programme and support the In-Service Support team in supporting and maintaining the key product. Key to this role is the ability to lead a growing team of systems engineers to ensure certification delivery timescales are met under challenging conditions. With an in-service capability to support and capability enhancements to deliver, across a number of customers, this programme is a great place to build breadth of experience or to put your existing skills and experience to use to deliver military capability. The Functional; Validation & Verification Lead will be comfortable adapting themselves and their approach to the challenge at hand; they will maintain vision amongst complexity and be adept at communicating this vision to drive, engage and influence partners. The Functional Validation & Verification Lead will have real impact on what we deliver to our customers, current and future, and in return will provide you: the opportunity to work independently across the company; genuine engineering challenges, and broad professional growth. Benefits of working here: State of the art technology & innovation External learning and development encouraged Light and airy university type campus Friendly environment Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More Skills Required: A highly motivated self-starter who can work both independently and as part of a team whilst managing the priorities of a number of varied tasks in the context of a bigger picture Experience of systems engineering process and managing a team to deliver Certificates of Design into the programme. The ability to adapt to new challenges assessing evidence from various sources Experience of DOORS, and requirements management processes Ability to organise and manage a small team of systems engineers to ensure they are efficiently working to meet the plans. Ideally degree educated in a relevant engineering or science discipline You will need to obtain UK Security Clearance for this role. This will require you to be a UK Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment