Systems Engineer

Permanent Futures Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design business in the UK is seeking a Systems Engineer to manage full system life cycles, from defining customer requirements to ensuring compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate will have experience in a highly regulated field such as aviation, rail, or nuclear and possess strong project management skills. This role offers autonomy in project progression and collaboration with multiple engineering teams to ensure successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in a project management or systems engineering role within a highly regulated industry (rail, automotive, defence, aerospace, nuclear).
• Ability to take a top-down approach to systems design.
• Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with staff and customers.

Responsibilities

• Define customer requirements and expectations accurately.
• Provide timely information to support project management activities.
• Ensure accurate information flow between software and hardware teams.
• Support the Systems Lead Engineer in communication and reporting.
• Collaborate with the Product Safety Team to integrate acceptance requirements.

Skills

Engineering qualification

Project management experience

Inter-personal skills

Experience in a regulated industry

Job description

Our client is an expanding design business that has recently won several new long term contracts. On the back of this, we're recruiting a Systems Engineer with a complex engineering projects background to be responsible for full system life cycles from defining customer requirements, developing System Specifications, identifying and demonstrating relevant industry standards through to reliability, availability, and maintenance, safety and system disposal. You'll be given the autonomy to progress projects as you see fit managing through a matrix system several design engineers. To suit this role you need to have experience in a tightly regulated industry with exacting regulatory standards (aviation, rail, defence, nuclear, etc.).

Responsibilities and Stakeholders

• Sales and Business Development (and Customer) - to correctly and fully define customer requirements and expectations.
• Project Management - to provide accurate and timely information to support PM activities.
• Software Team - to ensure a full and accurate two-way flow of information for specification, testing, integration and validation of the software elements of a system.
• Hardware Team - to ensure a full and accurate two-way flow of information for specification, testing, integration and validation of the hardware elements of a system.
• Systems Lead Engineer - to take direction from and provide support to Systems Lead to provide full and timely information as required.
• System Team to work as part of a larger team in progressing projects, assessing information, receiving guidance and providing constructive feedback to junior members.
• Product Safety Team - to ensure that Product Safety (and hence Product Acceptance) requirements are fully understood and integrated into requirements, costs and plans.
• Operations Team - to ensure suitable two-way communication with Ops Team to establish cost estimates, manufacturing processes and other relevant requirements to accurately define the System.

Skills and Abilities

• An engineering qualification.
• Experience in a project management or systems engineering role within a highly regulated industry (rail; automotive; defence; aerospace; nuclear).
• An ability to take a top-down approach to systems design taking account of various methodologies.
• Inter-personal skills, in particular, the ability to work with staff and customers at all levels and generate positive, open relationships.

Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Defence, Rail, Automotive, Nuclear, Aerospace

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