Job Description

As a Senior/ Systems Engineer your key activities include the development of functional and non-functional requirements; supporting the Project Engineering Lead during the whole development lifecycle and contributing to a coherent and compelling product architecture.

The role can be based in Loudwater, Greenford or Weymouth and Ultra offers a choice of home site, as well as flexible and home working. In addition, we will help you achieve your goals by continuous professional development and regular career progression sessions.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities as a Systems Engineer

As a core member of the Systems Engineering team, you will:

• Contribute as part of the project engineering team to ensure we develop and deliver a solution that is technically and commercially acceptable.
• Support product certification and compliance approval (all technical aspects, including contractual & legislative).
• Deliver the systems engineering tasks for a project within on time and on budget, including work package management.
• Generate, understand, and review user requirements.
• Perform requirement analysis and flow down to system and sub-system levels.
• Develop and document system architecture, design, and acceptance and verification strategies.
• Ensure that specification, design, and acceptance information is fully traceable.
• Provide input to project schedules through regular and clear progress reports.
• Support bids by providing technical solutions, estimates, and plans.

Personal Attributes

• Good team player, with a proactive, collaborative approach and an ability to motivate others.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Total task accomplishment through concern for all areas involved.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to present complex information to senior managers and customers in a clear and concise fashion.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to express ideas, share technical information and communicate at all levels and across different cultures.
• Demonstrates strong initiative in attempts to influence events to achieve goals.
• Be willing to coach/mentor members of the team to aid and monitor their development, providing feedback to performance reviews.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Experience in negotiating and agreeing system requirements with customers and stakeholders. Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams. Good understanding of systems engineering lifecycle within a structured environment. Requirements elicitation and management using IBM DOORs. A good appreciation of mechanical, electrical and software engineering principals. Supported by a degree or equivalent in a relevant subject (Engineering or Computer Science), with potential for CEng status.