The right applicant for this role will be someone who has a consultancy or Defence background, with the ability to work autonomously or within engineering and cross-functional teams. The Head of Systems and Supportability Engineering will grow a team around them, and alongside other departments, to set strategy and deliver multi-disciplinary support to some of the most complex Government programmes. This team manage requirements at all stages of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, including elicitation of capability/user requirements, generation/management of system requirements, testing and acceptance.
As the Head of Systems and Supportability Engineering your focus will be developing:
* Engineering Management
* Engineering Governance.
Allocating consultants to projects and accounts in support of the business, working with the Account Leads to successfully meet demand.
* Identifying and setting up training courses for members of the department based on their training needs.
* Coaching people on the use of Systems Engineering and ILS tools and techniques.
* Supporting Account Leads by writing technical approaches within bids and presenting to prospective customers. Collaborating with Account Leads to identify need for new capability across all our customers.
* Working on projects, providing technical guidance and review to ensure project deliverables are of a high quality and meet customers’ expectations.
Delivering Requirements Engineering, Integrated Logistical Support, MBSE, and Engineering Governance in a consultancy context.
* Experience of DOORS/Dimensions RM software to support requirements management.
* Understanding of complex system of system projects and programmes, especially with respect to integration activities and SoS performance setting and acceptance.
* Providing technical guidance and reviews to ensure project deliverables are of a high quality and meet customers’ expectations.
* Developing employees and teams through internal and external training