Systems Engineer

MERITUS Talent are working with a Systems Integration consultancy for the recruitment of a Systems Engineer to join their engineering department on a permanent basis. The role is fully onsite, and suitable candidate should hold, or at least be eligible, for a SC Clearance

Systems Engineer – Permanent – Up to 65,000pa – SC Cleared – Kent – Fully Onsite

Role Overview:

Reporting to the Engineering Director, the purpose of this role is to carry out systems engineering and analysis for the our customers product range. This will include involvement in the entire product life cycle, from concept to end-of-life and working with the product line and mechanical and software teams in the engineering department. Working with the wider team (sales and marketing, operations, quality) to analyse new business opportunities. Review technical requirements and generating technical proposals and information that support the business winning process for both new products and the existing product lines. Work with the Product Line Engineering Managers to provide realistic time and cost estimates for projects.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

1. To analyse, capture and generate specifications for our customers products and systems.
2. To support sales and business development by advising and responding to technical questions and generating commercially astute technical proposals, technical notes, reports and explanations as required.
3. To support the new product introduction process by identifying risks and proposing effective mitigation actions.
4. To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of systems engineering and propose and implement cost effective and appropriate technology solutions for our customers systems engineering needs.
5. To undertake customer and supplier visits as required.

Experience:

• Relevant experience in systems engineering, electro-optics or electro-mechanics, preferably gained in a defence or homeland security business.
• Practical experience of electronic
• FMEA Analysis

Skills:

• Effective communicator both written and orally.
• Systems analysis using software tools (e.g. Matlab/Octave, C#, Python).
• Strong mathematical skills.
• An understanding of embedded C and C++ would be advantageous
• Computer literate (MS Office packages).
• Systems engineering and analysis techniques and principles
• Defence related environmental and EMC standards (Mil-Stds, DEF-STANs)
• Geographical information systems (GIS) advantageous
• Control theory with working knowledge of servo systems and control loops advantageous.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate should have a degree level qualification in systems engineering, physics or electronics