NUVIA UK - Principal Systems Engineer / Consultant

NUVIA; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

NUVIA is expanding its UK Systems Engineering consultancy team. As Principal Systems Engineer / Consultant you will provide authoritative technical direction across multidisciplinary projects, including secondments to customers or internal EPC work.

You will report to the Systems Engineering Manager and shape governance, architecture and integration strategies. The role requires leadership, experience in regulated environments and the ability to engage with senior stakeholders while delivering

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in engineering/technical field.
• Experience leading systems engineering in complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience in highly regulated environments (nuclear/defence/infrastructure).

Responsibilities

• Provide systems engineering leadership across projects and teams.
• Define tailored engineering approaches, plans and governance for complex programmes.
• Lead stakeholder needs, requirements and architecture development.
• Ensure interfaces and system integration across disciplines and suppliers.
• Oversee verification, validation and compliance activities.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Systems engineering leadership

Regulated environments

Requirements management

Cost/schedule awareness

Education

Degree in engineering or technical discipline

Full UK driving licence

Tools

Capella

Cameo

Job description

Role: Principal Systems Engineer / Consultant

Location: Candidates can be based at either of the below sites on a hybrid basis – 3 days per week site/office presence as a minimum.

• Birchwood, Warrington WA3 6XG
• West Burton Power Station, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 9BL
• Milton Park, Oxfordshire OX14 4RY

Salary: Up to £68,000 DOE

There has never been a more exciting time to join NUVIA UK. As a result of significant growth and major contract awards, including the STEP fusion programme and major frameworks supporting the UK's defence and nuclear infrastructure, we are expanding our capability and delivering some of the UK's most innovative and strategically important programmes. Operating across the nuclear, defence and energy sectors, our work supports critical national infrastructure, strengthens energy security and contributes to the UK's long-term resilience.

Purpose of the job

As a senior member of the Consultancy Team, you will provide systems engineering leadership and technical direction across multidisciplinary projects, supporting the successful development, integration and delivery of complex engineering solutions.

You will join Nuvia’s Systems Engineering consultancy team and work could take the form of secondment to Nuvia’s customers or support to internal EPC projects.

Reports to

Systems Engineering Manager

The role may also report functionally or operationally to an Engineering Manager or Project Manager while deployed on a project or customer assignment.

Responsibilities

Systems Engineering Leadership

• Provide technical leadership for systems engineering activities and team members across projects, programmes and customer assignments.
• Define and tailor proportionate systems engineering approaches, plans, processes and governance to suit project complexity, risk and lifecycle stage.
• Authoritative systems engineering advice and challenge to customers, project teams and engineering leadership.
• Promote effective systems thinking, problem solving and the consistent application of systems engineering practice for analysis and decision making.

Requirements, Architecture and Integration

• Lead the definition and management of stakeholder needs, requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead the development and management of system, functional and physical architectures.
• Ensure effective identification, definition and management of internal and external interfaces.
• Lead technical integration across systems, engineering disciplines, suppliers and lifecycle stages.
• Ensure appropriate planning and management of verification, validation and requirements compliance.

Technical Governance and Assurance

• Assurance of systems engineering activities and deliverables, including checking and approval
• Lead and contribute to technical, design, assurance and safety reviews.
• Systems engineering information is appropriately controlled, traceable and maintained through the engineering lifecycle.
• Ensure technical risks, assumptions, dependencies and significant engineering decisions are identified and appropriately managed.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, standards, customer requirements and company arrangements.

Project and Commercial Delivery

• Define systems engineering scopes of work, deliverables, resource requirements and technical inputs.
• Ensure systems engineering activities are delivered to the required quality, cost and programme.
• Manage and oversee systems engineering activities undertaken by suppliers and subcontractors.
• Support tenders through development of technical approaches, scope, estimates, risks and plans.

People and Capability Development

• Lead, mentor and professionally develop Systems Engineers providing technical direction
• Support recruitment and assessment of systems engineering personnel.
• Develop organisational systems engineering capability through improved processes, methods, tools, guidance, training and lessons learned.
• Promote culture of safety, collaboration, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills, Experience And Qualifications

Mandatory

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience in a relevant engineering or technical discipline
• Significant experience applying / leading systems engineering within complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience of highly regulated environments, preferably nuclear, defence, major infrastructure.
• Experience using requirements and engineering lifecycle management database software tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills,
• Ability to engage with customers and senior technical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of assurance, configuration management, safety, risk, change and governance.
• Commercial awareness, including technical scope, cost, schedule and supplier resource management.

Desirable

• Experience using MBSE tools such as Capella, Cameo or equivalent.
• INCOSE CSEP or equivalent systems engineering professional certification.
• Chartered Engineer, or working towards an appropriate professional qualification.
• Experience of engineering consultancy or customer secondment.
• Full UK driving licence.

Why Nuvia

Nuvia - a subsidiary of VINCI construction - is an international company that operates across highly regulated sectors including Civil Nuclear and has a strong presence and history of delivery at nuclear sites in the UK and internationally.

Nuvia is a performance-driven company that is committed to the development of its people within a culture of safety, innovation, and excellence.