World Class Defence Organisation is currently looking to recruit a Verification and Validation Systems Engineering Specialist subcontractor on an initial 12 month contract.
Rate: £85.00 per hour
Overtime Rate: Hours worked over 37 hours per week will be calculated at time and a quarter
Location: Stevenage or Bristol (depending on your preference)
Hybrid / Remote working: The role will be a hybrid role of on average 2 days per week onsite
Contract: 37 Hours per week
Duration: 12 Months (initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter)
IR35 status: Inside IR35 (Umbrella)
V&V Systems Engineering Specialist Job Description:
The Test & Evaluation team are looking for a V&V Systems Engineering Specialist to operate with a high-level of technical responsibility for the entire lifecycle of our product, ranging from design and development to qualification and deployment. A specialist will bridge the gap between design and production, ensuring that complex, high-reliability systems meet our requirements.
Key Responsibilities
* Test Strategy & Development: Defining test requirements, creating test plans, scoping front end activities with the customer ensuring that requirements are met and understood with the best efficiency maintained for deliveries.
* System Validation: Overseeing or supporting the qualification and acceptance of test equipment, ensuring it is robust, compliant, and accurate.
* Analysis & Troubleshooting: Analysing test data, identifying performance bottlenecks, and troubleshooting validation issues.
* Documentation & Governance: Producing technical documentation (test procedures, reports) and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
* Support departmental strategy and support the department head with recruitment of the right people into the team.
* Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders within the business relating to technical direction
* Provide technical leadership to all Test related issues across design projects with proven experience in Test Equipment requirements capture and specification.
* Supporting new product bid activities.
* Identify, document and deploy best practice across the department and within projects.
Essential Skills & Qualifications
* Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of electronics or mechanical systems, a degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar discipline.
* Hands-on Experience: Expertise in operating general-purpose test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators).
* Industry Standards: Knowledge of safety-critical standards, particularly within aerospace, defence (e.g., MOD), or rail sectors.
* Communication: Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams and liaise with customers for system acceptance.
* Hands-on experience of DOORS & DOORS NG, SysML & Rhapsody would be desirable, but training will be provided where needed.
* Experience in DfT and testability.
* RF / Microwave systems knowledge would be desirable.
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