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Systems Design / Weapons Systems Engineers
Bristol (Full Time, Permanent)
£35,000 - £40,000 / Year (£35k - £40k)
Systems Design / Weapons Systems Engineers - Bristol, Avon
Systems Design / Weapons Systems Engineers :

Highly successful Defence Organisation based in Bristol is currently looking to recruit 6 Systems Design / Weapons Systems Engineers.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you’re not already cleared to that level.

The salary on offer is between £35k - £40k Outstanding benefits including, Annual Bonus, Overtime, Flexitime, Pension and Company Healthcare etc.

Systems Design / Weapons Systems Engineers Job Description:

System Design & Architecture activities contributing to the Specification, Design and Validation.

Key responsibilities:

• Carry out a full range of technical analyses and investigations, including evaluation and selection of technical options and prepare reports with suggested recommendations to support the resolution of problems and/or the development of engineering capability, individually or as a member of a project team.
• Prepare a full range of specifications (system, sub-system etc), develop designs in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards, and carry out design appraisals in assigned areas to ensure all standards are maintained.
• Define testing approaches and specify tests in assigned/specialist area(s) and evaluate and make recommendations based on results, including making suggestions to improve test/diagnosis processes.
• Typical Roles could include:
o Requirements analysis and design in response to customer requirements.
o Identification of key design vulnerabilities between different solutions, e.g. maritime and land system variants.
o Development and embedding “hooks” into the system/sub-system design to enable adaptation/configuration for other applications, e.g. export variants.
o Investigation of potential re-use options for cost savings.
o Production and maintenance of sub-system software requirements specifications and interface requirements specifications.
o Ensuring correct flow down of top-level requirements to sub-systems and interfaces.

Skills / Experience:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline.
• Experience of working in a Systems Engineering environment
• Substantial analytical and problem solving skills.
• Sound understanding of the system design process (including System and Sub-System Specification, System Test, Integration and Certification).
• Rhapsody and UML / SysML
• Knowledge of Algorithm and Software development.
• Practical knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
o Use of DOORS for requirement management, tracking and mapping certification evidence
o System testing including the production of related documentation
o Interface specification
o Knowledge of data analysis techniques
o Software technology and design/validation methods
• Good verbal and written communications

Experience in two or more of the following;

• System Definition
• Systems Architecture Development e.g. MODAF
•Requirements capture, decomposition and management
• System Design and Analysis
• Design Studies
• Design/Performance Modelling
• System Integration
• Design Proving and Trials
• Interface Design
• System assessment and acceptance