System Engineer

Launched in November 2019, our client is one of the world’s leading advanced technology groups, established to develop agile, bold and disruptive solutions for defence and beyond, and to be a catalyst for change and transformation. With a focus on the adoption of 4IR technologies, our client is driving the development of sovereign capabilities for global export and for the preservation of national security, working with front-line operators, international partners, and adopting advanced technologies such as autonomous capabilities, cyber-physical systems, advanced propulsion systems, robotics and smart materials. 

They converge R&D, emerging technologies, digital transformation, and commercial market innovations with military capabilities to develop disruptive solutions tailored to the specific requirements of its customers.

Responsibilities:

Drive the system engineering tasks on the allocated project including:

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• Compile and maintain the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).
• Develop specifications of the system and lower level subsystems to the point that the development team can design to specification.
• Develop Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Develop architectural design in consultation with design authorities at various levels of the system and capture in design descriptions, specifications and layout drawings
• Work closely with specialists in a multidisciplinary team.
• Technical management (of multidisciplinary) including performance trade-offs and managing the development team and technical outputs as well as functional areas (i.e. environmental, EMC, aerodynamics, simulations, guidance and control, software, etc.).
• Coordinate with logistics/product support development and safety to ensure that specialist engineering capability fields such as reliability, maintainability, transportability, producibility, etc. are implemented in the design
• Develop the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP).
• Support system qualification by ensuring that test results are documented in order to write compliance reports proving compliance of the design to the specification
• Work closely with specialists in a multidisciplinary team.
• Follow methodology to meet Quality Assurance requirements including test repeatability.
• Maintain a decision register documenting major decisions from trade-off studies.
• Coordinate and lead the technical Design Reviews in accordance with the Acquisition Process/Systems Engineering Phases including System Requirements Review (SRR), System Design Review (SDR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR) and coordinate with all engineering disciplines and design authorities to present at these reviews for compliance to the review checklist
• Coordinate and lead Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs) ahead of important ground tests (airframe structural test, GVT, etc.) in coordination with engineering disciplines and design authorities and ahead of flight tests in coordination with the Flight Test department.
• Hold Configuration Control Board (CCB)/ Project Configuration Management Boards (PCMBs) with design authorities, CM, QA and safety to process Engineering Change Proposal/Notice/Requests (ECPs/ECNs/ECRs)
• Participate in Material Review Boards (MRBs).
• Generate technical work packages, reports and presentations as required to support the PM in preparation for PMRs.

Requirements:

Qualifications/Education/Experience/Training

• Minimum academic requirements and/or technical qualifications and minimum previous professional experience required.
• Engineering degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical or Software Engineering.
• Minimum 10 years working experience in a high tech environment, preferably 15 years in aerospace.
• Minimum 5 years and preferably at least 10 years working experience as a systems engineer.
• Previous working experience within the aeronautics engineering environment is preferable.