Senior Principal Systems Engineer – Naval Automation

Rolls-Royce Corporation; Heybridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rolls-Royce in Heybridge is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to ensure that our products have sufficient oversight to meet business, customer and regulatory requirements across the full lifecycle.

You will translate high-level automation requirements into validated designs, define design constraints, manage interfaces with customers and partners, implement PLC code, and contribute to policy, procedures and documentation.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in electrical engineering or related field.
• Chartered Engineer status desirable.
• 7+ years in electrical engineering and automation systems.
• Experience with naval/marine automation and control systems.
• Lifecycle project delivery experience.
• Ability to analyse complex technical problems and make balanced decisions.

Responsibilities

• Review and agree high level automation requirements.
• Translate requirements into validated automation designs.
• Define design constraints and quality attributes.
• Interface with external and internal customers to elicit requirements.
• Design and implement automation designs meeting constraints.
• Allocate automation requirements to test vehicles.
• Create Enterprise Architecture solutions serving business and technical needs.
• Produce documents: FDS, CMD, test specs, manuals.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to understand system functions.
• Set Systems Engineering and Verification approach for the program.
• Implement PLC code.
• Define communication interfaces between IPMS and 3rd parties.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Systems engineering

Automation design

Project management

Marine automation

Stakeholder liaison

Configuration management

PLC programming

Education

Degree in electrical engineering

Chartered Engineer status

Tools

PLC programming

Enterprise Architecture

Job description

Rolls-Royce in Heybridge is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to ensure that our products have sufficient oversight to meet business, customer and regulatory requirements across the full lifecycle.

You will translate high-level automation requirements into validated designs, define design constraints, manage interfaces with customers and partners, implement PLC code, and contribute to policy, procedures and documentation.