Principal Systems Engineer in Wimborne, Dorset

Principal Systems Engineer
Based in Wimborne
Flexible/Hybrid/Remote working model.
Competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Must have or be eligible obtain SC Clearance.

Would you like the opportunity to influence the future of engineering systems?
Would you like to be part of a community that will value your contributions and encourage your personal and professional growth.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer to join the world's leading provider of Air-to-Air Refuelling systems and Actuation.

The Principal Systems Engineer will work across the business and provide support to projects at various stages of the product development life-cycle.

As a principal systems engineer, you will be responsible for:
* Developing operational concepts, system architectures, and step in when required to ensure excellence in systems delivery.
* Develop Operational Concepts (ConOps, OpCon) and use cases for our next generation of systems.
* Lead and deliver work packages across various stages of the systems life-cycle processes.
* Elicit, analyse, and manage system requirements, own the preparation of system requirements specifications in accordance with customer, legislation, human factors and business needs.
* Work with other systems engineers to ensure best practice in requirements elicitation and management, creating a SMART and therefore verifiable sets of requirements.
* Develop company best practices and use to create system/sub-system architectures and the decomposition, allocation of requirements into sub-systems and LRUs.
* Identify and clearly specify the interfaces at the system and sub-system level
* Plan and budget systems engineering activities.
* Produce technical reports and Systems/Requirements Management Plans
* Influence and lead the continuous improvement of the systems engineering capability at MSD.
* Act as an internal consultant for systems engineering principles and practices.

Experience/Qualifications Required:
* Degree in aeronautical, mechanical, electrical engineering or equivalent experience
* Experience working on complex systems for at least 5 years, with it being desirable that the experience was gained within the Aerospace, Military or safety critical Industry.
* Experience of planning, leading and executing requirements.
* Experience of capture and systems architectures development using requirements capture tools (e.g. CRADLE, Rhapsody and DOORS NG) and other standard systems tools and methods.
* Experience of interfacing with internal and external customers to negotiate, capture, and validate system concepts, requirements and architectures.
* Understand the significance of Systems Thinking and has an appreciation of applying Systems Thinking to solve problems.
* Can problem solve, able to apply critical thinking to form opinions on issues and proposed concepts, and is self-motivated to drive issues to resolution.
* Effective communicator in formal and informal situations.

Must have or be eligible obtain SC Clearance.

Desired Skills:
* Chartered engineer in the UK or working towards chartership is desirable
* Knowledge of systems engineering processes across all stages of the engineering life-cycle including exposure to industry standards such as ARP4754A, IEC15288 is desirable.
* Exposure to Model Based Systems Engineering and Modelling Languages (e.g. SysML).

Depending on the level of expertise, this role can act or has the potential to evolve into a subject matter expert in systems engineering to develop, implement, and manage new systems engineering tools and processes into the business as well as mentoring and training the system engineering community.
We will provide the training and development opportunities for you to develop your own capabilities within System Engineering and the products we develop.

Principal Systems Engineer
Based in Wimborne
Flexible/Hybrid/Remote working model.
Competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.