Systems Qualification Engineer

2-3 days on site

£72.54 per hour (inside IR35)

Defence

12 months

As a Qualification Systems Engineer you will report to the Lead Hardware Systems Engineer and Project Design Authority as applicable. Your responsibilities will include estimation of development activities, design of technical solutions, implementation of proposed solutions and the testing involved in verifying them. You will also be required to help in diagnosing with reported issues. This role will require the need to travel to test house.

As part of the development team you will be expected to work closely with your team members, as well as providing support to other teams such as business winning, development, test, and support teams.

You will support the design, qualification and implementation of our deliveries at the operational level. In other words, not only will you be responsible for ensuring the components comprising our systems meet their requirements but you will be responsible for ensuring our delivered products operates and integrates.

You will also be responsible for helping to ensure the overall Physical, Electrical and Environmental compliance of the delivered System, ensuring it meets both BAE Systems Product Safety mandates and the statutory requirements of the customer's base of operation.

Your main responsibilities as a Systems Engineer will involve:

• Providing Hardware and Systems Engineering support to the business development activities including study/experimentation activities, system de-risking activities, interfacing with suppliers
• Development and implementation of technical solutions that meet the customer requirements
• Support System Integration activities
• The safe design of the system prior to delivery and for the preparation of information required by the Design Authority to support the Design Certification and Certificate of Design activities

Knowledge:

• A strong Hardware and Systems Engineering background
• A good understanding of the complete engineering lifecycle and configuration management
• A good working knowledge of the development processes (e.g. requirements, design, specification, implementation, integration and testing, acceptance), and development tools (e.g. Requirements Management, Modelling and defect reporting systems)
• Experience of providing engineering input and support to business xbpsjku development activities would be an advantage.
• Demonstrable knowledge or experience in some or all of the following would be especially desirable, in particular their applications in a military context:
• Electrical engineering disciplines e.g. BS7671 qualified
• CAD experience / familiarity desirable
• Communications technologies: IP networking (including network design), VOIP, Point-to-Point radio links, serial communication
• A good understanding of designing equipment to meet stringent environmental requirements such as EMC, Environmental etc. (awareness of associated DEF-STANS would be desirable)
• Understanding of Design Certification and Product Safety Processes

Desirable:

• A background in Communications (voice, data and radio products)