Systems Engineer; Lead and Chief

Job Description

Job Description:

Are you a Systems Engineer who loves contributing to the UK's Defence Industry and making impactful change? We are recruiting for a number of Lead/Chief Systems Engineers from a variety of backgrounds and skillsets, working on real engineering problems, designing and developing solutions that sit at the heart of our products. This exciting opportunity is based at our dedicated sites in Southampton or Basildon sites.

As the Lead/Chief Systems Engineer you will act as the focal point for Systems Engineering Governance and trend our Systems Engineering capability in a positive direction. You will support Systems Engineering capability and improvement matters across the Business Areas, providing proactive guidance to senior stakeholders on Systems Thinking and Methods for adoption that aligns with successful project execution.

What we build is exciting, interesting, challenging and complex. A diverse product portfolio of technologies, with each programme at a different stage in its development lifecycle. Given this complexity, it requires each programme to connect with the “Art of Systems Engineering” to ensure we are doing the right activities at the right time.

The focus of this role is to provide direction, guidance and expertise to ensure that Systems Engineering Team:

• Assess the problem completely
• Reuse techniques and artefacts across the portfolio of projects
• Manage complexity through architecting our systems well
• Predict and mitigate emergent behaviours when operating at a system or integrated systems level
• Create and enact the correct verification and validation strategy

To be successful you will demonstrate passion for your trade by instilling a systems-thinking approach based on experience forming and leading high performing teams. Using your skills as an influencer, you will thrive in dynamic environments, with the ability to make decisions quickly under pressure and set a clear technical vision for the team on Systems Engineering methodologies.

Given the extensive people engagement nature of the work, we are still able to offer custom working that allows for a combination of home and on-site working i.e. flexible working delivering effective results. Day to day duties include:

• Influence the development of Engineering artefacts, their technical direction and ultimately stakeholder satisfaction
• You will work across a highly demanding and complex area of the business, immersed in full-scale development programmes spanning the breadth of the engineering lifecycle across the ISR and Force Protection teams
• Act as the focal point for systems engineering governance, supporting Lifecycle Management (LCM) activities
• Provide expertise and guidance to ensure our engineers understand the problem completely and stakeholder needs through effective coaching on Systems Engineering practices (early and later lifecycle stages)
• Ensure the appropriate level of concepting, modelling and simulation techniques are used across the lifecycle to inform architectures and solution options
• Influence whole life design considerations relating to Safety, Security, Manufacture, Test, Supportability, Through Life Support in line with company processes
• Support quarterly threat and mitigation reviews across the Business Area’s on project status and enabling initiatives (e.g. capability, capacity, competency)
• Represent Leonardo within Systems Engineering bodies and groups of interest, such as INCOSE
• Identify trends across the Business Area’s, capturing and sharing lessons learned to improve the quality and efficiency of future work
• Promote an agile mind-set to systems engineering, building a culture of experimentation and failing fast
• Collaborate with your peers in similar roles across the UK to promote a culture of continual learning and improvement, acting as a change agent for systems engineering

What you’ll bring

You will have proven experience as a Lead/Chief Engineer (or role with similar responsibilities), with the following attributes:

• Applying governance and guidance on Systems Engineering LCM process
• Working in Integrated Project Teams delivering Engineering artefacts successfully
• Eliciting stakeholder…