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Senior Systems Engineer

Job type:Perm
Town/City:Rochester
County:Kent
Salary/Rate:£50000 - £60000 per annum
Business Sector:Safety Systems Engineering
Job ref:BBBH152377
Post Date:February 13, 2025

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Rochester
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please discuss options during the recruitment process.
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 (dependent on experience)

Key Responsibilities:

  • Understanding complex customer needs and collaborating to develop, validate, and manage requirements at multiple levels
  • Developing complex system architectures and sub-systems using a Model-Based Systems Engineering approach
  • Integrating, analysing, and testing real-time systems that incorporate multiple technical disciplines such as electronics, mechanics, optics, and software
  • Taking accountability for collaborative technical work package execution and associated outcomes
  • Providing guidance, coaching, and mentoring to other engineers
  • Ensuring customer requirements are met through rigorous verification processes
  • Driving new and improved systems development through implementation, applying best practice systems lifecycle processes, including techniques such as Learn First and Agile

Required Skills & Experience:

Essential:

  • Proven experience developing systems in relevant product markets and/or domains, such as control systems, real-time displays, or other safety-critical systems, incorporating multiple technical disciplines (e.g., electronics, mechanics, optics, software)
  • Experience in requirements management, design analysis, modelling, and simulation, using tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, MATLAB, and/or Simulink, with familiarity in methodologies like SysML
  • A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant scientific or engineering subject (e.g., Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics)

Desirable:

  • Experience in integration, testing, and verification of real-time and/or safety-critical systems, with an understanding of safety assessment processes and their impact on design
  • Customer and/or supplier liaison experience in technical aspects, ensuring customer requirements are satisfied
  • Awareness of information assurance, cyber security, and environmental impact considerations related to real-time embedded engineering products

Benefits:

  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Enhanced annual leave allowance
  • Company-contributed share incentive plan
  • Flexible working options
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Employee discounts
  • Potential eligibility for an annual incentive

About the Team:

The Systems Engineering team is involved in the development and supply of products across a diverse range of commercial and military platforms, including display systems, pilot control systems, and flight control systems. Team members are encouraged to gain a broad knowledge base across multiple domains, with opportunities to specialise in specific product areas or systems engineering disciplines.