Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer (SRE)
Location: Ansty, Coventry
Job Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 36 Hours per week (Fully Flexible Working Week and Hybrid working options available)
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: Vitality Medical, Company Pension, Tusker Car Scheme & Cycle 2 work scheme and more.
Responsibilities
- Leading Systems Engineering activities on a wide range of challenging projects, ensuring outputs meet customer expectations within agreed budgets and timescales.
- Developing and implementing Systems Engineering processes, templates and tools.
- Providing Systems Engineering technical expertise and governance, including nurturing earlier-career stage engineers in their technical development.
- Establishing and promoting best practice Systems Engineering across the MTC.
- Contributing to the development and realisation of Systems Engineering strategy.
- Proposing and supporting capability development projects that align with the Department, Technology Theme, and overall MTC strategy.
Essential Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- Experience applying Systems Engineering approaches for all phases of the system development lifecycle, in a product development, design, industrialisation of technologies and/or manufacturing environment.
- Experience defining and leading Systems Engineering activities on large-scale complex projects, e.g., systems with bespoke control schemes, novel technologies, complex interfaces, multiple suppliers and/or partners, safety critical systems.
- Experience developing and implementing processes aligned with BS ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023 or industry equivalent.
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication at all levels.
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders, partners and/or suppliers.
- Demonstrable experience of coaching and mentoring to support colleagues.
- Creative problem‑solving abilities, with a practical approach to implementation. Applies a pragmatic approach to achieving project objectives and can adapt to the needs of the situation.
- Holding a degree, or equivalent experience or qualification, in an appropriate STEM discipline.
Desirable Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- Experience as a functional team leader, including team administration, career development and pastoral care.
- Experience of applying Model Based Systems Engineering.
- Experience of manufacturing plant, assembly or production lines and manufacturing processes.
- Experience in functional safety, fault trees and safety assessments.
- Experience of design, development and realisation of system prototypes and system test rigs.
- Engineering competence in wide range of engineering disciplines such as Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Electronics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Simulation Modelling to facilitate appropriate technical leadership of these functions at system level.
- Experience of developing FMEAs, HazID and HazOps analyses.
- Experience of applying agile methodologies, and/or spiral development within the Systems Engineering framework.
- Knowledge and experience of Quality Assurance, Process Assurance, Configuration Management and Lifecycle Management.
