Senior Systems Engineer

QinetiQ Group plc; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension scheme

Life assurance

Generous holiday allowance

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Employee discount portal

Job summary

QinetiQ Group plc in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join a team delivering nose ranging and tracking capabilities within Underwater Test and Evaluation. You will support the UK's ranging capability under the LTPA programme, defining architecture, operations concepts, and integration for range delivery.

You'll lead technical teams, manage workloads, ensure compliance with safety standards, and produce key documents such as requirements, design descriptions and test

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification or equivalent.
• Extensive systems engineering experience across major projects.
• Ability to lead technical teams and manage junior engineers.
• Experience defining engineering outputs such as management plans and test reports.
• Familiarity with regulatory, safety and technical standards.

Responsibilities

• Apply a systems engineering approach across projects.
• Engage with stakeholders, project managers and technical teams to meet customer and business requirements.
• Lead technical teams, structuring workloads, reviewing outputs and managing junior systems engineers.
• Define and apply systems engineering processes including requirements engineering, system design and support.
• Deliver technical documentation, reporting progress and escalating major technical issues where required.
• Apply relevant regulatory, safety and technical standards to ensure compliance.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of requirements, specifications and system design with negotiation and presentation skills.

Skills

Systems engineering

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Requirements engineering

Regulatory and safety standards

Problem solving

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Education

Degree level qualification or equivalent

Job description

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will join a team that develops and integrates nose ranging and tracking capabilities within Underwater Test and Evaluation delivering high quality systems engineering outcomes. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of a very exciting defence challenge. Day-to-day, you'll be delivering high-quality systems engineering outcomes supporting the UK's ranging capability under the LTPA programme. This includes system architecture definition, concepts of operations, detailed system modelling, testing integration and even delivery to the range. Your responsibilities will include:

• Applying a systems engineering approach and delivering key engineering activities across significant projects
• Engaging with stakeholders, project managers and technical teams to meet customer and business requirements
• Leading technical teams, structuring workloads, reviewing outputs and managing junior systems engineers
• Defining and applying systems engineering processes including requirements engineering, system design and support
• Delivering technical documentation, reporting progress and escalating major technical issues where required
• Applying relevant regulatory, safety and technical standards to ensure compliance
• Sound understanding of systems engineering principles, lifecycle processes and wider engineering management considerations
• Proven experience determining suitable systems engineering approaches while considering enterprise, political and acquisition factors
• Track record of applying relevant systems engineering techniques to support effective project delivery
• Previous experience defining required engineering outputs including management plans, product descriptions and test reports
• Proven ability anticipating potential problems, understanding wider impacts and determining appropriate solutions
• Experience demonstrating strong understanding of requirements, specifications and system design alongside effective negotiation and presentation skills, Degree level qualification or equivalent
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

We value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough, Malvern, Portsmouth or Bristol site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week.

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we're not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Systems Engineer at our Farnborough, Malvern, Portsmouth or Bristol site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds., As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges. As a QinetiQ employee, you'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Recruitment Process: We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.