Job Title: Systems Engineer
Working Pattern: 5 Days a week in the office / Hybrid work possible
Working location: Heybridge
Type of Contract: Permanent
Responsibilities
* Ensure Rolls‑Royce has sufficient oversight for our products to meet business, customer, and regulatory requirements.
* Review and agree high‑level automation requirements including their testability.
* Analyse and translate high‑level requirements into a validated design for automation components.
* Capture applicable design constraints and quality attributes that apply to the component.
* Interface between external and internal customers to elicit and validate all stakeholder requirements, including business, technical customers, and partners.
* Design and implement automation designs to meet the high‑level requirements and design constraints/standards.
* Allocate automation requirements to test vehicles defined in the verification plan.
* Create an appropriate Enterprise Architecture solution that serves both business and technical needs.
* Develop, implement, document, and maintain policies, procedures, associated guidelines, tools, and training as required.
* Produce documents such as Functional Design Specification (FDS), Control and Monitoring Description (CMD), Test Specifications and Operator/Maintenance Manuals.
* Apply System Safety practices such as FMEA, FMECA, and risk analysis.
* Liaise with other disciplines to understand functional performance capabilities of system components to facilitate effective component design.
* Set the Systems Engineering and Verification approach for an Engineering Programme through the Configuration Management Plan.
* Clarify and define serial communication interfaces between the Rolls‑Royce Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) and 3rd‑party systems.
* Develop experience in PLC application software design and understand programming languages such as C/C++, Structured Text (ST), and willingness to learn the WINMON language.
* Develop experience in Human‑Machine Interface (HMI) design.
Position Qualifications
* Degree level in electrical engineering or similar discipline, or equivalent competence and industry experience.
* At least 3 years of professional experience in electrical engineering, designing automation systems, and managing projects or programs of increasing complexity.
* Significant domain knowledge and experience in naval or marine automation and control systems.
* Experience in all stages of a project lifecycle and responsibility for delivery of at least one stage.
* Ability to work dynamically and respond to evolving objectives while coordinating with a multidisciplinary engineering team.
Preferred Requirements
* Knowledge and experience of delivering systems complying with naval and marine standards, specifications, and safety standards.
* Good time‑management skills, ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a high‑pressure environment.
* Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
Rolls‑Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non‑discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued and diverse perspectives fuel innovation.
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