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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:
* System and System of Systems Architecture
* MBSE
* Integrated Logistics/Product Support
You will be responsible for:
* Setting the vision and strategy for the department in collaboration with the other department leads.
* Leading team meetings to share knowledge, co-ordinate activities, pursue opportunities and address issues.
* 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.
Skills:
* Delivering Requirements Engineering, Integrated Logistical Support, MBSE, and Engineering Governance in a consultancy context.
* Experience of requirements management within defence
* Knowledge of the UK acquisition framework (e.g. Business Cases, URD, SRD, CONEMP/CONUSE, ITEAP, etc.)
* 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.
* Capability Development of new tools and techniques.
* Providing technical guidance and reviews to ensure project deliverables are of a high quality and meet customers’ expectations.
* Leading multi-disciplined teams in a consultancy setting.
* Managing a variety of stakeholders both internally and externally.
* Developing employees and teams through internal and external training.
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