Position – Senior Systems Engineer

Rate – Up to £80 Per hour (DOE) Umbrella Co 

Hours – Typically 38 hours per week 

Location – Aldermaston, Berkshire – some travel required

Determination – Inside IR35

Duration – TBC

Industry – Defence / Nuclear

Key Accountabilities:

• To Engineering Task/Project Manager for planning and execution of tasks in order to deliver specific agreed objectives; demonstrating control of cost, quality and timeliness of engineering output.
• Lead and influence collaborative working and contribute towards the achievement of project goals.
• Provide mentorship and supervision of staff working in systems engineering.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyse and translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements.
• Undertake requirements derivation, architecture development and system simulation.
• Undertake modelling and simulation to explore problem space and potential system solutions.
• Undertake requirements verification and validation and support technology teams’ derivation of verification and validation events, test cases, test plans and test specifications, to support integration activities.
• Perform or lead trade studies and analyse the relative benefits/merits of competing solutions.
• Lead the development and delivery of viable technical solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Manage and develop long term plans in support of life-cycle phases using Systems Engineering best practice.
• Support process capture, implementation and improvements for integrating the sub-systems.
• Support project reviews for internal programmes and external contracts, including providing written reports and verbal briefs to management and stakeholders.
• Maintain and promote awareness of Systems Engineering best practice and wider systems issues.