The Project/Systems Engineering function in Ultra provides expertise to all projects through the bid and full development lifecycle. It ensures that both project and statutory requirements are suitably met and works to improve the effectiveness of the systems engineering approach within the company. It is responsible for the system requirements, the resulting architecture, the design and integration of the solution. It is responsible for ensuring we design to cost and design for manufacture.
Responsible for / Key responsibilities
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Responsible for assuring the Systems Engineering (in-process verification and validation) and delivery of conclusive evidence via System Integration, Verification and Validation (IV&V) processes and activities.
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Ensure the correctness and completeness of work products and solutions, from the requirements phase onwards, executing an evidence creation strategy in order to progressively gain internal and external acceptance.
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Create and maintain IV&V artefacts such as Strategies, Plans, Procedures, Compliance Matrices and Reports, to progressively assure the desired outcomes.
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Carry out IV&V responsibilities in accordance with IV&V processes and industry practices, so that internal, qualification and acceptance events are completed to an agreed level of maturity.
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Lead the cross-discipline development of any supporting test equipment/rigs/fixtures, via a lifecycle approach; creating requirements, support the design, development, testing of and maintenance, enabling the associated development and in-service test events.
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Responsible for all safety and security aspects relating to IV&V events and facilities used by the project.
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Actively participates, and is a key stakeholder, at engineering design reviews and project gates/reviews, owning the preparation, delivery and resulting actions of TRR.
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Responsible for the utilisation of any external IV&V facilities/test houses, i.e. organising interoperability testing, collaboratively developing test harnesses/fixtures etc. with test houses.
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Actively contributes to improving processes, tools and techniques that to increase the adoption, quality and efficiency of SE, IV&V engineering..
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Exemplifies, leads, mentors and coaches IV&V to engineers and non-technical resources; sharing knowledge willingly and constructively to aid consistent application of IV&V principles, processes and methods.
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Manage security of information as defined in the Security Aspects and Government regulations.
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The role is expected to provide Line Management, Technical Management or Subject Matter Expert responsibilities:
- Line management of a team of systems engineers (2-6), responsible for their development, training and approval of the team’s requests (e.g. annual leave etc.).
- Technical management of a team of systems discipline engineers (1-5) on a project, their tasking and being responsible for the quality of their technical delivery and adherence to schedule and budget.
- Subject Matter Expertise, and recognised as an expert in a specific subject matter, such as a specific product/technology/tooling/practice type or area.
Essential Qualifications / skills /requirements
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Has extant/recent SC security clearance
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Is flexible to travel within the UK to support external stakeholders, test houses and customers.
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Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance
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Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or have applicable defence industry experience.
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Knowledge of Systems Engineering/V&V experience of solutions formed of Hardware, Software and Firmware components.
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Has designed and delivered special to type test equipment to meet the diverse requirements generated across multi-concurrent projects.
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Safety and security management for test environments including laboratories, able to build a business case to ensure that test environments are suitably available, safe & secure.
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Demonstrable experience of INCOSE/ISO 15288 Systems Engineering of complex solutions and delivered IV&V in accordance with ISO 29119.
Desirable Responsibilities
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To be familiar with environmental facilities and their operation under the guidance of environmental test team
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Assesses tasks to define Basis of Estimate costing for bid and change processes.
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Actively reviews professional publications; champions Systems Engineering/IV&V industry standards; active member and promotes related professional organisations.
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Experienced in the implementation of test facilities/equipment in relation to ISO 17025.
Desirable Qualifications / skills /requirements
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INCOSE member – ASEP/CSEP
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IV&V/Test related certification/recognition.
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Experienced in test automation, frameworks and marriage with manual testing for an overall test campaign.
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Environmental, EMC, EMI, TEMPEST etc design for and/or test experience
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Scripting languages: JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Rest, MySQL.
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Development approaches, iterative, incremental, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), hybrid and similar models