Systems Engineering Manager

Want to join a company with over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and delivering highly bespoke simulator solutions?

Join a reputable business who have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!

Join a team at an exciting time, at the start of re-defining their systems, with the opportunity to influence and shape the product!

Opportunity:

Are you passionate about building and testing electronic systems? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where your technical expertise is valued, and your creative input is encouraged?

As a Systems Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role ensuring the engineering function provides expertise to the projects through bid and development life cycles.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and mentoring with technical direction to a team of System Engineers, allocating and managing their work.
• Ensure that both project and statutory requirements are met and works to improve the effectiveness of the systems design function within the company.
• Continuously develop systems engineering tools, processes, and capabilities to support current and future programmes.
• Develop technical solutions to large and complex engineering problems, following Systems Engineering processes, to ensure customer requirements are satisfied.
• Develop Systems Engineering artefacts, as required, across the product development lifecycle, to result in a positive project outcome.
• Responsible for the design, development and delivery of Systems Engineering artefacts for one or more projects to ensure high quality deliverables.
• Work closely with the system, hardware and software departments to ensure consistency, design for modularity and re-use, and technical excellence.
• Plan, co-ordinate and present at internal and external design reviews, to senior management and customers, to ensure a successful event.
• Actively contribute to and/or lead defined aspects of the project to achieve optimal balance between requirements, schedule and cost.
• Manage customers and external suppliers to ensure compliance with agreed processes and achievement of project objectives.
• Generate and review technical proposals, and provide accurate estimates for the associated effort, costs and risks, for bids and proposals, leading to contract awards.
• Estimate time and effort required for systems activities and deliver to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.
• Reviews and approves technical documents, chairs technical reviews for significant deliverables.
• Explains technically complex concepts clearly to less technical/involved parties.
• Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual to ensure compliance with Government regulations.

Experience needed:

• Solid and proven understanding and deployment of the Systems Engineering discipline into complex engineering programmes, to ensure project successes.
• Experience of developing high quality requirements and establishing a fully compliant systems design.
• Experience in writing high quality technical documentation and the formal technical review of such material.
• Experience of JAMA and hands-on development of either hardware, software or firmware development, particularly in an embedded environment.

Desirable:

• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous.

Areas of work;

• Requirements Definition & Management.
• Systems Architecture.
• System Design.
• Design for 'x'.
• Integration.
• Interfaces.
• Verification and Validation.
• Degree in an engineering, mathematical or science-based subject or equivalent experience.
• Previous experience in the defence industry delivering complex platforms/systems is a plus

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