Defence
Systems Engineering Manager
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Job Description
Join a reputable business who have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!
Join a team at an exciting time, at the start of re-defining their systems, with the opportunity to influence and shape the product!
Opportunity:
Are you passionate about building and testing electronic systems? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where your technical expertise is valued, and your creative input is encouraged?
As a Systems Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role ensuring the engineering function provides expertise to the projects through bid and development life cycles.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and mentoring with technical direction to a team of System Engineers, allocating and managing their work.
- Ensure that both project and statutory requirements are met and works to improve the effectiveness of the systems design function within the company.
- Continuously develop systems engineering tools, processes, and capabilities to support current and future programmes.
- Develop technical solutions to large and complex engineering problems, following Systems Engineering processes, to ensure customer requirements are satisfied.
- Develop Systems Engineering artefacts, as required, across the product development lifecycle, to result in a positive project outcome.
- Responsible for the design, development and delivery of Systems Engineering artefacts for one or more projects to ensure high quality deliverables.
- Work closely with the system, hardware and software departments to ensure consistency, design for modularity and re-use, and technical excellence.
- Plan, co-ordinate and present at internal and external design reviews, to senior management and customers, to ensure a successful event.
- Actively contribute to and/or lead defined aspects of the project to achieve optimal balance between requirements, schedule and cost.
- Manage customers and external suppliers to ensure compliance with agreed processes and achievement of project objectives.
- Generate and review technical proposals, and provide accurate estimates for the associated effort, costs and risks, for bids and proposals, leading to contract awards.
- Estimate time and effort required for systems activities and deliver to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.
- Reviews and approves technical documents, chairs technical reviews for significant deliverables.
- Explains technically complex concepts clearly to less technical/involved parties.
- Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual to ensure compliance with Government regulations.
Experience needed:
- Solid and proven understanding and deployment of the Systems Engineering discipline into complex engineering programmes, to ensure project successes.
- Experience of developing high quality requirements and establishing a fully compliant systems design.
- Experience in writing high quality technical documentation and the formal technical review of such material.
- Experience of JAMA and hands-on development of either hardware, software or firmware development, particularly in an embedded environment.
Desirable:
- Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous.
Areas of work;
- Requirements Definition & Management.
- Systems Architecture.
- System Design.
- Design for 'x'.
- Integration.
- Interfaces.
- Verification and Validation.
- Degree in an engineering, mathematical or science-based subject or equivalent experience.
- Previous experience in the defence industry delivering complex platforms/systems is a plus
For full information, please get in touch.
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Location: South East London, GB
Posted Date: 10/4/2024
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