Radar Systems Requirements Manager

JR United Kingdom; Newport; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company shaping the future of radar technology as a Radar Systems Requirements Manager. In this pivotal role, you will lead requirements management activities, ensuring traceability and compliance with industry standards. Collaborating with a talented team, you will drive continuous improvement in methodologies and tools, particularly focusing on the exploitation of advanced requirements management systems. This role offers the opportunity to influence cutting-edge radar products while enjoying a flexible working environment that supports work-life balance. Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values your contributions and empowers you to reach your full potential.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Green car scheme

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Expertise in Systems Engineering and requirements management.
• Proficiency with requirements management tools and ISO standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements activities across the engineering lifecycle.
• Maintain requirements database and ensure effective verification.

Skills

Systems Engineering principles

Requirements management tools

ISO standards (ISO 15288, ISO 12207, ISO 29148, IEEE 1016)

Agile and Waterfall lifecycle models

High-level design methodologies (UAF, NAF, TOGAF, SysML, UML)

Configuration control

JIRA

Education

Degree in STEM discipline

Tools

IBM DOORS Next

Job description

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Radar Systems Requirements Manager, Newport, Wales

Client:

BAE Systems

Location:

Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

Job Title: Radar Systems Requirements Manager

Location: Cowes

Salary: Circa £65,000+ depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and managing requirements activities across the engineering lifecycle, applying ISO 15288 principles to ensure traceability from definition to validation
• Owning and maintaining the requirements database, ensuring it supports effective decomposition, verification, and specification across system levels
• Defining and implementing robust requirements management processes, plans, and database schemas to meet project and customer needs
• Administering access, training, and support for requirements tools (e.g. DOORS Next) and ensuring good practice is followed across the team
• Facilitating the integration of tools and data exchange with third parties, ensuring configuration control and data integrity
• Monitoring requirements stability, generating key metrics, and supporting the production of requirement documentation and specifications

Your skills and experiences:

Essential skills:

• Expert-level knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, with strong systems thinking and holistic approaches to requirement definition and management
• Familiarity with key standards related to requirements specification (e.g. ISO 15288, ISO 12207, ISO 29148, IEEE 1016)
• Proven experience in requirements management tools (e.g. IBM DOORS Next) and configuration control
• In-depth understanding of the full engineering lifecycle, including lifecycle models such as Waterfall and Agile, and tools like JIRA
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) in a STEM discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience using high-level design methodologies (e.g. UAF, NAF, TOGAF, SysML, UML) with a focus on requirements integration
• Awareness of the defence industry landscape and current UK government strategic priorities

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Future Radar team:

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology. We are evolving our radar portfolio, enhancing our existing and developing brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, our strategy is to stay at the forefront of defence innovation.

As a Radar Systems Requirements Manager, you will support our leading Radar products, ensuring consistency and traceability across the full engineering lifecycle—from definition through to integration, acceptance, and support. This role will take ownership of the requirements database and drive continuous improvement in related methodologies and tools, particularly around the exploitation of DOORS Next.

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site, and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 22nd April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.