Combat System Engineer - M55 Support en Expleo

Overview

Expleo is a global company and a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting.  We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

This role is to support Expleo in the discovery phase of a new contract award to deliver work to customers developing defence combat and Mission systems. 

Responsibilities

• You will undertake technical work activities within a system engineering context.
• Work as part of a technical team in support of project objectives
• Assist in the production of technical documentation in support of work carried out.
• Engaging with stakeholders, project managers and senior technical staff to ensure customer and business needs are satisfied appropriately and problems are mitigated You will be advising on:
  • How combat systems should be developed, acquired and evolved
  • Test, evaluation and acceptance of combat systems and their constituent equipment
  • Interface management and development
  • Requirements management
  • System of system architectures
  • Lifecycle management and reviews
  • Subcontractor technical management
  • The identification and rectification of defects such as those encountered during operational service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent education with relevant experience.

Essential skills

• Requirements identification and management
• Acceptance identification and management
• Subcontractor technical management
• IVVQA experience
• Certification experience MOD defence

Desired skills

• Experience: In the defence industry.
• Technical/Specialized Knowledge: Lean/Agile methodology, experience with naval systems or/and mission systems is highly desirable.
• Tools: Experience with JIRA, DOORS, EA
• Experience in product/system design/evolution
• Ability to identify delivery and technical issues, adherence to work plans and schedules, reporting of progress, issues etc. to more senior staff.
• Hold or be eligible to gain UK gov security clearance.

Experience

• Experience: 5+ years’ experience in System Engineering area
• Relevant engineering/systems engineering experience ISO 15228 or similar
• Knowledge, or expertise in any/some of the following. They are listed in priority order.
  • EW
  • Comms systems, HF to Satcom and networks
  • C4I, CMS
  • DEW
  • Combat system infrastructures, cloud computing, virtualisation, middleware, open systems and architectures
  • MBSE
  • AI
  • Data fusion
  • Devsecops
  • Sonar
  • UAVs
  • Navigation systems

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!   
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

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