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Senior Systems and Hardware Design Authority
Location-Harlow
Contract-Permanent
Summary of Role:Â
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems and Hardware Engineer to work within the Assured Position Navigation and Timing Systems team (APNT), producing Digital GPS Anti-Jam Systems and Alternative Navigation Solutions primarily for the military market.
The role will provide Design Authority (DA) support across a range of APNT products, providing Systems and Hardware Engineering expertise/direction across the product lifecycle, from requirements capture, Analysis, Design through to testing, qualification, certification and in-service support.
Main Duties:
This role will initially provide support to the Lead Design Authority for our Flagship Anti-Jam products with a view to becoming the Lead Design Authority once enough training and experience has been gained.
Main activities include DA support to: Customer Programme Management Reviews (including attendance to PMR held in Georgia every 6 months, April and October), monthly customer IPT meetings, weekly internal IPT obsolesce, risk and FRACAS reviews.
Primary responsibilities include production support and obsolescence maintenance, management of project requirements, generation of technical documentation, systems analysis, hardware design, participation in technical design reviews and technical direction/custodianship of the products.
Candidate Requirements:
Essential
- Experience across the systems engineering lifecycle from requirements through to project completion.
- Experience with generation of technical documentation at all levels from requirements capture through to Declaration of Design & Performance (DDP).
- An understanding of the ‘rules’ of change management and configuration management in a highly regulated industry where safety and performance are paramount
- Understanding of policies, practises and procedures, and the ability to communicate these to their team.
- Sense of ownership, resilience and decisiveness to provide technical direction/guidance in the development of electronic solutions, and have the confidence and experience to assess and sign off on solutions
Desirable
- Experience with the IBM Rational DOORS toolset (or similar)
- Experience with RF (including Antennas) and Digital Hardware design and test
- Algorithm development incorporating Modelling experience in MATLAB/Simulink
- Experience with SysMl or UML in a Systems Engineering environment
- Experience with configuration management system
