Systems Engineer

Jobtailor; Waverley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our multidisciplinary team in the United Kingdom. You will support capture, review and management of stakeholder, system and subsystem requirements, and maintain traceability across requirements, design and verification evidence.

You will contribute to V&V planning, option evaluations and trade studies, help define architectures and interfaces, and prepare technical deliverables.

Qualifications

• A degree in systems, process, chemical or mechanical engineering, or a relevant scientific discipline.
• Interest in requirements management, V&V and multidisciplinary product development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a logical and methodical approach.
• Confidence and communication skills to influence people without formal authority.
• Proactive, engaging personality and ability to build relationships across different teams and levels.
• Organisation and attention to detail needed to manage technical information and documentation accurately.
• Adaptability to work effectively in a dynamic, evolving clean-technology environment.
• Right to work in the UK without sponsorship, now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Support capture, review and management of stakeholder, system and subsystem requirements
• Maintain traceability between requirements, system design and verification evidence
• Support V&V planning, evidence management and technical readiness activities
• Contribute to technical assessments, option evaluations and trade studies supporting project decisions
• Help define system architectures, functional breakdowns, interfaces, states and modes
• Prepare and maintain specifications, reports, plans, interface documents and other technical deliverables
• Support product engineering across the full lifecycle, including customer-facing documentation and technical product information
• Work across multidisciplinary teams to understand technical issues, dependencies and system-level impacts
• Support product compliance, configuration management, change control and engineering governance
• Contribute to development of systems engineering processes, templates and ways of working

Skills

Requirements Management

Verification And Validation (V&V)

Systems Engineering

Technical Documentation

Analytical And Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Attention To Detail

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's or higher in systems/engineering or relevant science (chemistry/physics)

Job description

• Support capture, review and management of stakeholder, system and subsystem requirements
• Maintain traceability between requirements, system design and verification evidence
• Support V&V planning, evidence management and technical readiness activities
• Contribute to technical assessments, option evaluations and trade studies supporting project decisions
• Help define system architectures, functional breakdowns, interfaces, states and modes
• Prepare and maintain specifications, reports, plans, interface documents and other technical deliverables
• Support product engineering across the full lifecycle, including customer-facing documentation and technical product information
• Work across multidisciplinary teams to understand technical issues, dependencies and system-level impacts
• Support product compliance, configuration management, change control and engineering governance
• Contribute to development of systems engineering processes, templates and ways of working

Requirements

• A degree in systems, process, chemical or mechanical engineering, or a relevant scientific discipline such as chemistry or physics
• Interest in requirements management, V&V and multidisciplinary product development
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a logical and methodical approach
• Confidence and communication skills to influence people without relying on formal authority
• Proactive, engaging personality and ability to build relationships across different teams and levels
• Organisation and attention to detail needed to manage technical information and documentation accurately
• Adaptability to work effectively in a dynamic, evolving clean-technology environment
• Right to work in the UK without sponsorship, now or in the future

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in requirements management, verification and validation (V&V), and systems engineering processes, with a strong focus on technical documentation and compliance in a multidisciplinary environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Requirements Management
• Verification And Validation (V&V)
• Systems Engineering Processes
• Technical Documentation
• Analytical And Problem-Solving Skills

Hard Skills

• Systems Engineering
• Technical Assessments
• Functional Breakdown
• Interface Management
• Configuration Management
• Change Control
• Evidence Management
• Traceability
• Product Lifecycle Support
• Technical Readiness Activities

Soft Skills

• Communication Skills
• Relationship Building
• Organizational Skills
• Attention To Detail
• Adaptability

Industry Keywords

• Clean Technology
• Stakeholder Management
• Multidisciplinary Teams
• Engineering Governance
• Technical Deliverables