Systems Engineering Lead - Datalinks

Cirrus Selection; Bristol; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to enhance best practices within their Data Link Systems team. You will promote an innovative approach to diverse projects and support the development of systems engineering methodologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in systems engineering across the full lifecycle and strong stakeholder management skills. This role requires UK citizenship and offers a competitive salary along with excellent benefits.

Benefits

State of the art technology

Encouragement for external learning and development

On-site Medical Centre

Access to sports and social club

Restaurant and coffee shops on site

Qualifications

• Must be a full UK citizen due to security clearance requirements.
• Experience with the full lifecycle of Systems Engineering projects is essential.
• Must have knowledge of current Systems Engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Promote best practices across the Data Link Systems group.
• Provide education and training to support key programmes.
• Support team development in Systems Engineering knowledge.

Skills

Broad Systems Engineering experience

Understanding of Systems Engineering methods

Ability to implement MBSE methodologies

Proactive working style

Stakeholder management experience

Experience in systems architecture design

Experience supporting colleagues' development

Job description

Location: Bristol or Stevenage

Salary: Up to £65,000 P/A + Excellent annual Bonus (up to 21.25%), pension and benefits

Hours: 37 hours per week

Do you want to join a business, who value inclusivity, a three-time gold investor in people award winner, an advocate of supporting women in engineering and developing their people to be the best they can be?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineering Lead to join a Data Link Systems team supporting projects in their use of current and emerging systems engineering processes, methods and tools, whilst concurrently being actively involved in developing and promoting best practice usage to improve efficiency and consistency across UK projects.

The opportunity

The Systems Engineering Lead will promote and drive best practice across the Data Link Systems group, where you will shape how we approach our programmes, considering the needs and expectations of customers, the capability of technology and third-party suppliers.

Day to day the Systems Engineering Lead will provide an education, training and consultancy style system design support to key programmes, tailored to their needs to ensure maximum benefit is obtained from best practice use. Within this role you will be involved in supporting the development of team members as they build their Systems Engineering knowledge - assessing core Systems Engineering techniques, developing and delivering process improvement and behavioural change to teams.

More information is available upon request

Benefits of working here

• State of the art technology & innovation
• External learning and development encouraged
• Light and airy university type campus.
• Friendly environment!
  • Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More

Duties include but not limited to.

Skills and Qualifications

• Broad Systems Engineering experience covering the full life cycle.
• An individual with an understanding of state-of-the-art Systems Engineering methods and their application in the domain i.e. experience of lifecycle issues on major projects.
• Ability to understand and implement MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) methodologies into practicing programmes.
• Capable of working autonomously and proactively, dealing with multiple issues, tasks and priorities concurrently.
• Stake holder management experience.
• Experience of systems architecture design.
• Experience supporting colleagues development.

You will need to obtain UK Security Clearance for this role.

This role is not open to anyone other than a full UK Citizen.

Dual nationality is not permitted; some restrictions may apply.

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