Overview
As Principal Vehicle Systems Engineer you will provide technical leadership across complex Protected Mobility and defence programmes. You’ll guide systems engineering from concept through production, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. The role focuses on architecture, requirements, design solutions, and rigorous verification to deliver high-quality vehicle programmes. This is a high-impact position that shapes critical defence systems and capabilities in a fast-moving project environment. You’ll work with customers, suppliers and internal teams to drive system-level outcomes and ensure successful acceptance.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and systems engineering leadership across vehicle programmes
- Develop and manage system and subsystem requirements
- Support system architecture, specifications and design solutions
- Collaborate with engineering teams, customers, suppliers and subcontractors
- Lead design, integration, test and acceptance activities
- Support design reviews and resolve complex engineering issues
- Produce high-quality technical documentation and brief senior stakeholders
Key requirements
- Engineering degree or equivalent qualification
- Strong systems engineering experience
- Experience leading complex engineering development programmes
- Requirements management experience including DOORS
- System design and analysis using SysML
- Experience across the full systems engineering lifecycle
- Strong supplier/subcontractor management skills
- Excellent communication, influencing and customer-facing skills
- Willingness to travel within the UK and potentially overseas
- Eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC)
- Defence, protected mobility, military vehicles or automotive engineering experience is advantageous
- strong communication
- influencing
- customer-facing
- requirements management (DOORS)
- SysML
- systems engineering lifecycle
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