Functional Validation & Verification Lead

Cirrus Selection; Bristol; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company based in Bristol is looking for a Functional Validation & Verification Lead. You will drive the systems engineering team on major military programmes, ensuring timely certification delivery while leading a talented group of engineers. This role offers opportunities for professional growth and presents genuine engineering challenges.

Benefits

State of the art technology & innovation

External learning and development encouraged

Light and airy university type campus

Friendly environment with various on-site amenities

Qualifications

• Experience managing a systems engineering team.
• Ability to adapt to challenges and assess evidence.
• Motivated self-starter, working independently and within a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the functional systems engineering team for UK programmes.
• Ensure certification delivery timescales are met.
• Communicate effectively to engage and influence partners.

Skills

Team management

Systems engineering

Adaptability

Requirements management

Education

Degree in engineering or science discipline

Tools

DOORS

Job description

Location: Bristol

Salary: Up to £57,000 P/A d.o.e. + Overtime, Bonus & Benefits

Hours: 37 hours per week (Due to classification this is a 2 or 3 days on site role)

Do you want to join a business, who value inclusivity, a three-time gold investor in people award winner, an advocate of supporting women in engineering and developing their people to be the best they can be?

The Functional Validation & Verification Lead will drive the UK programme element for the functional systems engineering team on major international export contract. The Functional Validation & Verification lead reports into a Chief Systems Engineer via the Certification Lead, working to deliver an important military programme and support the In-Service Support team in supporting and maintaining the key product. Key to this role is the ability to lead a growing team of systems engineers to ensure certification delivery timescales are met under challenging conditions.

With an in-service capability to support and capability enhancements to deliver, across a number of customers, this programme is a great place to build breadth of experience or to put your existing skills and experience to use to deliver military capability.

The Functional; Validation & Verification Lead will be comfortable adapting themselves and their approach to the challenge at hand; they will maintain vision amongst complexity and be adept at communicating this vision to drive, engage and influence partners.

The Functional Validation & Verification Lead will have real impact on what we deliver to our customers, current and future, and in return will provide you: the opportunity to work independently across the company; genuine engineering challenges, and broad professional growth.

Benefits of working here:

• State of the art technology & innovation
• External learning and development encouraged
• Light and airy university type campus
• Friendly environment!
  • Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More

Skills Required:

• A highly motivated self-starter who can work both independently and as part of a team whilst managing the priorities of a number of varied tasks in the context of a bigger picture
• Experience of systems engineering process and managing a team to deliver Certificates of Design into the programme.
• The ability to adapt to new challenges assessing evidence from various sources
• Experience of DOORS, and requirements management processes
• Ability to organise and manage a small team of systems engineers to ensure they are efficiently working to meet the plans.
• Ideally degree educated in a relevant engineering or science discipline

You will need to obtain UK Security Clearance for this role. This will require you to be a UK Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment.