Senior Systems Engineer

Salary: £60,000 – £84,000 per year

Role:

We currently require an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to lead the full design and development life cycle of electrical and electronic systems, hardware and embedded software. In addition, this role is necessarily expected to drive the continuous improvement of systems engineering within the broader engineering team through mentoring, training and process improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

* Champion the systems engineering discipline within the engineering team, providing continuous improvement to processes, mentoring/training of staff and providing recommendations to the Engineering Director aligned with the Strategic Plan

* Support project managers in the formation of project plans, estimates, identification and management of risk/issues, project reporting and adherence to schedule and cost

* Identify cost and schedule reduction opportunities during project planning and through the project lifecycle

* Solicit from stakeholders and derive system level functional and performance requirements at the outset of projects and manage compliance through life.

* Support the team in the analysis, breakdown and derivation of requirements for lower-level subsystems and engineering disciplines

* Provide system architectural designs and trade-off analyses

* Take technical leadership of multi-discipline engineering design projects and provide guidance to other engineers during development project phases.

* Engage with supply chain, production and test departments throughout the development process to optimise the design for manufacture and test

* Lead design reviews with customers

* Take a hands-on leadership role in the planning and execution of integration, validation and verification, compliance and commissioning aspects of the products

* Provide line management and career coaching of direct reports as required.