Lead Systems Engineer

At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Lead Systems Engineer to join our team within the Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3) line of business. The CS3 line of business operates across the UK, providing innovative and invaluable support solutions to our customers. We help to ensure the availability of front-line capability wherever and whenever required.

This role will be part of the Through-Life Services (TLS) team as part of Team Tempest – working on the next-generation combat aircraft, operating at the cutting edge of technological innovation and securing the UK's position as a global leader in combat air. We are looking for someone who thrives when working in the problem space, is good at drawing out and understanding stakeholder needs, as well as looking at different concepts for creating optimal value solutions for both the customer and the business.

TLS consists of everything needed to keep the systems operating effectively throughout their life, and aims to develop a more capable, cost effective and sustainable solution, seeking to influence the early design of the equipment as well as provide the through-life solution framework. This includes all of the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), solution management, continuous improvement, equipment upgrades, spares, repairs, training, supportability, failure prediction, equipment health status monitoring, support solution architecture, knowledge and information management. These future solutions are expected to be highly dependent on information systems, use of synthetics and digital analytics, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

In this role you will work closely with both the internal Leonardo teams and with external stakeholders, including our national industry partners and the MoD, giving you the opportunity to influence and optimise the holistic solution.

What you’ll do as a Lead Systems Engineer:

• Own the creation and delivery of the technical solution within a defined work package area, ensuring that it meets all stakeholder requirements.
• Establish and mature stakeholder needs, associating/attributing priority, interest, influence and trading-off needs to determine optimum capability to solve stakeholders’ problems.
• Contribute to the determination of a solution strategy, including brownfield or greenfield methodologies, identifying and exploiting existing Leonardo services and solutions in order to ensure existing technology, processes, and subject matter expertise is re-used.
• Create the concepts and architecture for defined elements of the through life support solution, taking input from the product design teams, as well as the functional subject matter experts (including supportability, obsolescence, data).
• Carry out system functional analysis, modelling and architecture development/refinement as required.
• Support the identification and establishment of Use Cases to perform Functional Analysis to help define the logical architecture of the solution.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure architecture alignment with other elements of the programme.
• Ensure the application of appropriate tools/techniques for systems engineering by the team, providing advice in own area of expertise.
• Resolve emerging issues by proposing and driving through solutions, escalating more complex risks and supporting definition of opportunities and risk mitigation options.
• Use the output of Operational Analysis (OA) to improve the solution design/requirements.
• Create and deliver reports and presentations to customers and industry partners.
• Contribute to the development of cross-cutting capability within the CS3 Systems Engineering function, particularly in the modelling/architecture space.
• Foster relationships and networks within and outside the line of business, actively seeking out opportunities and promoting a culture for adoption of best practice.
• Develop, coach, mentor, teach, and upskill other engineers in the wider application of systems engineering.

We would like to hear from you if you have a combination of the following:

• Demonstrated experience of driving technical solution development within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience in capturing and analysing stakeholder needs to help guide the development of service solutions capable of meeting the needs of future operational environments.
• Experience in adoption of MBSE approaches to develop service and product system architectures in response to stakeholder needs and requirements.
• Experience in generation of Use Cases and performing of Functional Analysis for requirements refinement.
• Experience of working across the engineering lifecycle, within one or more domains, with an understanding of how decisions made in the early lifecycle affect the later stages.
• Ability to balance competing needs using a range of methods such as trade studies.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with an ability to influence and adapt according to changing demands.
• Experience of working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders from a wide range of organisations, disciplines, backgrounds and levels of seniority, including managing relationships with customers and/or suppliers.
• Ability to maintain engineering best practice, including looking externally to sources such as academia or other industries.
• Ability to explore and capture the problem domain without solution domain bias.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop others.
• Appreciation of how a system fits within the broader capability enterprise, for example as a component of a system-of-systems solution and wider dependencies such as personnel and infrastructure.
• Self-motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and driving difficult issues to conclusion.

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Life at Leonardo

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us.

Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance).

Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year.

Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution).

Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers).

Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme.

Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera.

Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member.

Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below.