Senior / Principal System Engineer

Quest Global; Luton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Global in the United Kingdom is seeking a Systems Engineer to join its expanding engineering services team. The role will be based at a client site in Luton, with a four-day-per-week on-site pattern and broad exposure to lifecycle activities across multiple disciplines.

You will develop system and subsystem requirements, own features in an agile environment, create interface documentation, and generate test documentation.

Qualifications

• Exposure to most project/product lifecycle milestones
• Experience working with agile methodologies
• Experience in requirements management
• Experience in stakeholder management
• Experience in verification and validation activities to achieve acceptance
• Exposure to systems integration and test of complex, high-reliability systems
• Experience of requirements management in DOORS
• Experience in multi-disciplined engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience producing high-quality documentation (interface docs, test specs, procedures)
• Experience participating in design reviews (PDR/CDR/TRR)

Responsibilities

• Generation of system documentation required as part of the life cycle of the project
• Development and refinement of system and subsystem level requirements
• Provision of requirements management on assigned subsystems
• Features ownership and development in agile environment
• Communicating the system designs to the product owner, Project Design Authority and Engineering Manager
• Generation of interface control documentation
• Generation of Test documentation
• Support the acceptance of the solution internally and externally to the customer
• Ensuring that solutions are ready to enter design reviews
• Interfacing and supporting the software and hardware team in system engineering activities and technical workshops
• Support customer meetings when required
• Support the technical management of subcontractors and generate the required documentation when needed
• Support Quest Global in growing its system engineering capability
• Provide support to the Quest Global site lead in providing project and system engineering expertise when needed
• Comply with Company policies and procedures (including the Business Management System)

Skills

Agile methodologies

Requirements management

Stakeholder management

System documentation

Education

STEM degree or equivalent

Tools

DOORS

Azure DevOps

Job description

Role Overview: Quest Global is an organisation at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognised expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

Job Requirements Role Overview: Quest Global is an organisation at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognised expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility. We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers. We have requirements for individual, looking to take the next step in their career development, within the Systems Engineering organisation, based on skillset and experience. Role will be based at one of our customer sites in Luton, 4 days a week due to the classification of the project.

Job Responsibilities As a systems engineer responsibilities may include but not limited to the following:

• Generation of system documentation required as part of the life cycle of the project
• Development and refinement of system and subsystem level requirements
• Provision of requirements management on assigned subsystems
• Features ownership and development in agile environment.
• Communicating the system designs to the product owner, Project Design Authority and Engineering Manager
• Generation of interface control documentation.
• Generation of Test documentation
• Support the acceptance of the solution internally and externally to the customer
• Ensuring that solutions are ready to enter design reviews
• Interfacing and supporting the software and hardware team in system engineering activities and technical workshops
• Support customer meetings when required
• Support the technical management of subcontractors and generate the required documentation when needed.
• Support Quest Global in growing its system engineering capability
• Provide support to the Quest Global site lead in providing project and system engineering expertise when its needed
• Comply with Company policies and procedures (including the Business Management System);

Work Experience

Skills, Qualifications and Experience required:

Mandatory

• Exposure to the majority of Project/Product life cycle milestones
• Experience in working using agile methodologies
• Experience in requirement management
• Experience in internal Stakeholder management
• Experience of verification and validation (V&V) activities to achieve acceptance
• Exposure to systems integration and/or test experience of complex, high-reliability systems
• Experience/knowledge of requirements management in DOORS
• Experience of working in multi-disciplined Engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Able to generate high-quality documentation (Interface documentation, test specifications, procedures & reports)
• Experience in producing documentations and being involved in design reviews such PDR, CDR and TRR

Desirable

• Radar experience
• EW experience
• Experience in using Azure Dev ops
• Leading a technical team through design reviews
• Work package leadership

Qualifications

• HND/HNC, degree (BSc/BEng/MSc/MEng) in a relevant STEM-based subject or equivalent experience.
• UK citizenship is mandatory to be able to clear the background checks and obtain SC clearance
• Current valid SC clearance would be an advantage