Principal / Lead Systems Engineer - Naval

Responsibilities

• Key Responsibility Areas:
• As a technical lead on the project, ensuring governance is followed and that you keep up to date on related processes and requirements
• Ensure your system or subsystem is compliant with any performance, legislative and contractual requirements, with a strategy for completing a traceable evidence set in place and that any deviations to compliance are clearly recorded and managed appropriately
• Support the assembly of evidence for your systems or subsystem to validate, verify and qualify in support of a Certificate of Design or Declaration of Design Performance
• Ensure robust quality, performance, cost and time trade-offs are undertaken and then to establish the technical solution coherent with the agreed budgets and timescales
• Provide technical direction, control, evaluation and recommendations with respect to risks and opportunities for your system or subsystem
• Lead and mentor more junior members of the technical team to enable a cost effective design programme and good product solution results
• Manage and communicate issues and opportunities to the Systems Design Authority

Requirements

• The Principal or Lead Systems Engineer will need to:
• Be able to achieve Design Authority (DA) status for systems and/or sub-systems, approved by the SDA and Chief Engineer Design Integrity, in accordance with the Leonardo Design Integrity framework.
• Work as a technical lead within their area of specialism, to ensure our products are implemented in accordance with the design and architecture approved by the SDA
• Ensure independent product assurance through Design Reviews and ensuring company processes are adhered to (eg functional reviews)
• Be responsible for ensuring the delivered product design, compliance, safety and integrity under the supervision of the SDA
• Work as part of a multi-disciplined project team in close partnership with key stakeholders.
• You really must have:
• A strong background in development of complex military products
• Have experience in developing systems solutions within at least one of the following: IP networking, RF or Comms domains.
• Experience of working with Requirements, Test, Qualification and Acceptance strategies.
• Experience of managing the Design Standard and associated Configuration Management.
• Experience in gaining Design Certification and Customer Acceptance.
• Have the ability to develop technical solutions, compliant with requirements within agreed programme budgets and timescales.
• Have the ability to produce innovative system solutions.
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, to be able to interact with SMEs and End Users of various nationalities regarding a wide range of technical and operational topics.
• Be a self-motivated leader and team player capable of working with minimal direction.
• It would be nice if you had:
• Knowledge of IP networking, RF and Comms equipment in the customer domain
• Experience of developing products for Nava

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