Principal Engineer – Systems Engineering

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer (Requirements)

Location: Frimley or Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Negotiable dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide specialist knowledge and subject matter expertise in the development of Submarine systems. Be able to define the systems architecture, components, interfaces, and data to enable the development and production of the component sub-systems. Understand and articulate the impact of their system of interest on other areas of the submarine platform
• Ensure design proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management tools, and has been endorsed by the appropriate level of authority
• Understand and support the flow-down of requirements to suppliers and acceptance of their specific deliverables, ensuring it is captured and recorded appropriately
• Support the development of estimates for the scope of work and resources required to deliver it in order to support bids, proposal development and project planning activities from a systems engineering perspective
• Provide technical support to integrated performance and acceptance activities, including acceptance of equipment from suppliers through to system acceptance by the customer
• Support the documentation of domain knowledge and pass on information and expertise in order to help grow the knowledge base within appropriate business teams
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and support the engineering management team in planning and controlling specialist activities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Knowledge of the Dynamic Object Orientated Requirements System (DOORS)
• Knowledge of the engineering lifecycle with experience operating in the phase relevant to the role and awareness of the entire engineering lifecycle
• Significant knowledge and expertise of Systems Engineering processes and practices in the defence, maritime or closely linked industry and the correct recognition of the context of their work within the overall product

Desirable:

• Previous experience with DXL scripting

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Combat Systems Architecture team:

The team manages a centralized model and associated requirements of the Combat System. In turn, we offer systems engineering support to reuse both models and requirements across multiple programs. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and

LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 30th August 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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