Morson are recruiting a Project Engineer on an initial 12 month contract to support our leading defence client. The Project Engineer will join a department specialising in the development of weapon systems and system architectures, as a result they have developed a capability supporting developments across the full product life cycle. The team integrate real products, models and synthetic environments to provide visualisations, demonstrations, verification & validation as well as training capability and support.
Responsibilities:
- The role is to support the delivery of integration tools to customers.
- Working with Project Leads and development teams to understand the critical path activities to ensure we deliver on time.
- You will work as part of a heterogeneous agile development team, made up of mixed discipline engineers working in synergy to deliver the simulations and representations of real equipment.
- The role requires you to deploy existing software packages provided to you from the software development team onto hardware.
- You will be responsible for ensuring the relevant Safety and Security documentation has been followed as defined in the published design definitions.
- The role may require you to support with documentation updates and supporting shipping and export functions (project dependant).
Skillset/experience required:
- Familiar with COTS computer hardware
- Ability to follow software load instructions to install software on COTS hardware
- Familiar with operating systems such as linux and windows
- Ability to work with a diverse group of people to build relationships and solve problems
- Ability to understand and support the delivery of plans so that delivery schedules can be kept.
- Ability to work with stakeholders to provide solutions to problems with plans when they arise
- Ability to use and manage simple databases for asset management and tracking purposes
- Ability to conduct software tests on deliverable equipment using pre-existing test documentation
- Appreciation for the importance of version controls
- Appreciation for the importance of quality controls
- Positive and professional behaviours
- Proven ability to deliver to deadlines
Nice to haves:
- Familiar with Continuous integration / development tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub) and the benefits to automatic build, test and deployment pipelines.
- Practical knowledge of System integration principles and processes
- Understanding of software development practices
Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will be SC cleared or eligible for this level of clearance
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