What Might Be Possible For This Role
Defense
Senior/PrincipalSystemsEngineer
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“Senior / Principal Systems Engineer at What Might Be Possible For This Role. Applied research. Exploit EO/IR technologies”
Industry & Context.
Security clearance, BPSS screening, National Security Vetting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
STEM education, Proven domain experience, Requirements capture and management, System definition and development, Modelling and analysis, Verification and validation, Full engineering lifecycle application, Experience with Model Based Design tools, Experience working in product development teams, Experience managing stakeholders, Experience collaborating with stakeholders, Proven decision-making skills, Excellent communication skills, Excellent interpersonal skills, Ability to build trust, Ability to build respect, Tenacity, Determination, Desire to deliver outputs, Desire to deliver results
Nice to Have
Experience with electronics design, Understanding of electronics design, PhD in electro-optics, EngD in electro-optics, Post-graduate degree in electro-optics, Practitioner level ability using Model Driven Engineering tools, Experience in using requirement management tool, Experience managing requirement relationships, Experience managing project artefact relationships
What You'll Do.
Exploit EO/IR technologies
Manufacture technologies
Apply systems engineering processes
Improve systems engineering processes
Collaborate with teams
Design EO/IR equipment
Build EO/IR equipment
Deliver EO/IR equipment
Instill systems-thinking approach
Lead high performing teams
Influence stakeholders
Make decisions quickly
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Integrated project teams; Internal stakeholders; External stakeholders
Communication Scope
Interpersonal skills
Full Job Description
**Job Description:** Are you an experienced Systems Engineer or Scientist who loves contributing to the UKs Defence Industry and making impactful change? We are recruiting for Senior and Principal Systems Engineers in our growing Detectors Area of Business in Southampton, who can apply their expertise to deliver cutting-edge Electro-Optics/InfraRed (EO/IR) capabilities across a diverse range of projects. **Your Impact** Our Systems Engineers span across a range of activities that help pull together all the necessary engineering and technology strands into a high-performance system. As a Systems Engineer, you will bridge the gap between the theoretically possible and the practically implementable. What we build is exciting, interesting, challenging and complex. A diverse product portfolio of EO/IR technologies, with each programme at a different stage in its development lifecycle. Typical work you might be involved in: * Applied research: Early research looking into exploiting new EO/IR technologies or concepts. * Requirements capture, definition, development, modelling, manufacture, test, and verification of EO/IR technologies. * Applying and improving systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle. * Collaborating with integrated project teams to design, build, and deliver EO/IR equipment. To be successful you will demonstrate passion for your trade by instilling a systems-thinking approach based on experience forming and leading high performing teams. You will be able to influence those you work with, thrive in dynamic environments, demonstrate resilience when faced with adversity and able to make decisions quickly under pressure and setting a clear technical vision for the project team. Given the extensive people engagement nature of the work, we are still able to offer custom working that allows for a combination of home and on-site working i.e. flexible working delivering effective results. **What you’ll bring** You will be educated within a STEM area
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