Senior Systems Engineer: Naval Navigation Systems

OSI Maritime Systems; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Annual development program

Collaborative culture

Job summary

OSI Maritime Systems seeks a seasoned Systems Engineer 4 to join our engineering team crafting marine navigation and bridge systems for government and naval markets. You will lead system design, requirements management, and subsystem integration across software, hardware, and logistics, ensuring compliance with military and IMO standards.

The role requires extensive systems engineering experience, team leadership, and strong collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• 8 years engineering experience, minimum 6 years' experience in Systems Engineering
• Experience in marine electronics and integrated bridge systems a significant asset
• Experience in defense or government domain preferably in naval ship sector a significant asset
• Experience leading a team of Engineers on projects
• Proven track record in the timely delivery of engineering related projects
• Strong knowledge of marine navigation and tactical sensors or systems
• Excellent knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, standards and best practices
• Working experience in network design and architecture
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with requirements and verification management tools such as DOORS

Responsibilities

• Develops system designs, defines systems architecture, defines interfaces and specification, performs trade-studies and documents the design by writing SSDD, ICDs, SRS
• Performs requirement analysis, traceability and maintenance of requirements
• Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system
• Identifies, analyzes and resolves program support deficiencies
• Develops and recommends corrective actions
• Designs to government standards, including Military and IMO standards, ensuring ongoing compliance and adherence to requirements
• Ensures availability, reliability and other logistics support considerations are part of the system design process
• Reviews obsolescence issues and recommends design changes
• Develops design concepts and generates technical proposal in response to RFQ
• May lead during customer design reviews and acceptance events
• May lead during system integration tests, trials, and acceptance tests at customer facilities
• Writes acceptance test procedures
• Manages scope of work, schedules work, estimates effort and costs, and identifies technical risks; effectively communicates status on a regular basis to management
• Works in both a team environment and independently with minimum supervision
• Mentors other system engineers, may co-ordinate activities of other personnel
• Single point accountability for technical aspects of a project where identified as the Lead SE
• Decision making authority within the confines of requirements acceptance, analysis and verification
• Carries out authority on the revision and release of Technical Documentation
• Applies judgment and makes decisions to solve routine or complex issues
• Considerable judgment necessary in handling confidential information

Skills

Systems engineering

Marine electronics

Team leadership

Requirements management

DOORS

Network design

Communication

Security clearance

Travel

Problem solving

Education

Engineering or Physics degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

DOORS

Job description

OSI Maritime Systems seeks a seasoned Systems Engineer 4 to join our engineering team crafting marine navigation and bridge systems for government and naval markets. You will lead system design, requirements management, and subsystem integration across software, hardware, and logistics, ensuring compliance with military and IMO standards.

The role requires extensive systems engineering experience, team leadership, and strong collaboration across disciplines.