Job Ref: 215830345

Date: 2022-02-16 13:43:37

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Depending on your experience, preferences and career development goals, your key activities could cover all aspects of the systems engineering lifecycle. You can expect to build on your experience in the development of functional and non-functional requirements; architecting a coherent and compelling product; producing system and subsystem specifications; developing, defining and performing verification and validation activities at subsystem and system levels.

Ultra offers a choice of home site, as well as flexible home working. In addition, we will help you achieve your goals by continuous professional development and regular career progression sessions.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

As a member of the Systems Engineering team, you will:

* Support the project success by taking on work package management or Engineering Lead role, responsible for ensuring the project engineering team develop and deliver a solution that is technically and commercially acceptable.

* Ensure that the technical solution meets the customer, legislative and business requirements.

* Ensure that the technical solution is designed, developed and then supported in accordance with the company processes and procedures.

* Support product certification and compliance approval (all technical aspects, including contractual & legislative).

* Deliver the systems engineering tasks for a project within on time and on budget, including work package management.

* Generate, understand, and review user requirements.

* Perform requirement analysis and flow down to system and sub-system levels.

* Develop and document system architecture, design, and acceptance and verification strategies.

* Ensure that specification, design, and acceptance information is fully traceable.

* Provide input to project schedules through regular and clear progress reports.

* Support bids by providing technical solutions, estimates, and plans.

Skills, Qualification and Experience

You will have previous experience of systems engineering, ideally in a naval/defence environment and can show:

* Experience in negotiating and agreeing system requirements with customers and stakeholders.

* Requirements management using IBM DOORs or similar tool

* A good appreciation of mechanical, electrical and software engineering principals.

* Supported by a degree or equivalent in a relevant subject (Engineering or Computer Science), ideally with CEng status.

Personal Attributes

* Good team player, with a proactive, collaborative approach and an ability to motivate others.

* Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

* Good time management and ability to switch efficiently from one task to another.

* Stable performer under pressure.

* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

* Able to present complex information to senior managers and customers in a clear and concise fashion.

* Excellent communication skills with the ability to express ideas, share technical information and communicate at all levels and across different cultures.

* Demonstrates strong initiative in attempts to influence events to achieve goals.

* The role is office based with occasional travel to other company/customer’s sites in the UK or abroad.

* Must have or be able to achieve SC clearance

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