Systems Engineer - UWS

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom
Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Systems Engineer
- Cheadle/Stockport - UWS
Do you have a genuine interest in Systems Engineering? Do you want to work on mission-critical Projects with cutting-edge technology? Do you want to be part of a highly respected team that will support your learning and development?
The Spearhead programme is rapidly improving the Royal Navy's capability to detect, track and prosecute underwater threats. Thales' Sonar 2087 already provides a world-class Anti-Submarine Warfare capability to Type 23 Frigates and will continue to empower Type 26. We're committed to making it even better. In collaboration with the MOD, Royal Navy and industry partners, we're using emerging technologies like AI, cutting edge processing and high resolution UI. We're ensuring the Royal Navy continues to dominate the underwater battlespace as our adversaries develop faster, quieter, stealthier threats.
We are looking for skilled engineers to join us. We offer a stimulating, fast paced and agile environment and we want you to take a flexible and dynamic approach. It's an exciting programme which enjoys significant attention and support from our MOD customer and Navy Command HQ users. This is not a typical defence procurement programme. This is not a systems engineering project as you know it. You will be challenged.
What the roles have to offer:
Join a novel, fast paced engineering project.
Room for and attention to personal development
Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or move to a more complex Solution
Choose between a technical expert or a leadership path
Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group
Our opportunity
A vacancy has arisen for an experienced Systems Engineer with the Spearhead project, you will primarily help to introduce new capabilities for an operational system using a novel, dynamic and fast-paced approach. This is an exciting opportunity in an area of the business currently undergoing rapid and sustained growth, both in domestic and export areas.
The individual is expected to be capable to take on the role of Systems Engineer for parts, or the whole, of a Sonar Design. This will entail acting as a technical leader for a capability integration team reporting to the Solution Engineering Manager & Project Design Authority.
Day to day you will:
Work with solution architects to analyse proposed capabilities against declared Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and reporting outcomes.
Create design artefacts to support the integration of capability sub systems into S2087 domain in accordance with Thales process.
Create assurance artefacts, in accordance with Thales and customer processes, in preparation for technology demonstrations on land and sea going platforms.
Manage requirements analysis activities to track the performance of capability candidates against customer specified metrics.
Reviews the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project.
System definition activities - requirements definition, functional and physical definitions
Preparation and presentation of system level design reviews
Monitoring of emerging detailed design within various implementation teams - acoustic, hardware, mechanical, software etc.
Ensure, with the support of Specialty Engineering experts & Safety/HSE stakeholders that Solution design takes into account contract requirements and applicable legislation, rules & regulations, including product safety & security and Environmental/HSE requirements & standards, and that related certification activities are performed correctly.
IVVQ planning and execution, including platform trials from time-to-time
Requirements sell-off and contract acceptance with customer
Customer and end-user liaison
Analysis of system performance
Alignment of Product vs Project - Contribute to business strategy and product development as required.
Sound understanding of the development lifecycle and lifecycle products.
About You
Evidence of capability against the following competences (INCOSE based):-
Systems Thinking: System Concepts (context, complexity); Super-System Capabilities
Systems Design - Concept Generation; Architectural Design; Maintain Design Integrity; System Robustness;
Safety - Identifying Hazards;
Strong analytical abilities with a methodical approach
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to team members, Design Authorities and varying levels of senior management.
Is a self-starter, capable of working on own initiative with a high level of integrity.
Well organized individual; ability to plan & schedule activities (and produce associated plans)
Team player who can interface at all levels within engineering and manufacturing company, represent the company to outside government and customer organisations, and who can operate successfully in a multi-cultural environment.
Ability to work professionally and constructively within a team environment providing advice and consultancy.
Good people management skills and the ability to influence and challenge others Demonstrable relevant systems engineering design and development expertise in the defence, naval or marine industry (typically complex systems with software content)
Design Authority responsibility, or similar.
Sensor-based system domain experience (from sensor, to (signal and data) processing, to operator), e.g. Radar, Sonar.
Proven track record of articulating / defining system design, i.e. production of design definition such as SSDD, ICD.
Proven track record of working in a complex Internal & External stakeholder environment, i.e. strong stakeholder management
Proven track record in customer liaising, negotiating and issue resolution
Bachelors Degree level, or equivalent, in engineering or relevant scientific discipline.
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What We Can Offer
We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market-leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
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