SC Cleared Lead Systems Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for an SC Cleared Lead Systems Engineer to join our well established client in Christchurch on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will need to be based close to Christchurch, however will be hybrid working 3 days per week in office.

£85,000 pa salary

Essential Functions:
* Maintenance of the design for existing tactical radio products (including the development of new features and enhancements)
* Liaison with manufacturing and suppliers for design engineering activities (including support to production and component obsolesce management)
* Developing requirements from customer aspirations and concepts
* Requirements management, producing use cases and high-level specifications
* Allocating requirements and assistance in producing lower level design and technical documentation
* Producing test plans and specifications and analysing test results
* Preparing for and participating in formal technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR etc.)

The successful candidate will be able to perform the role with general oversight from Engineering Management and Leadership. They will be responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees in system engineering matters and working closely with peers from other engineering disciplines. They will be responsible for managing complex projects, at times involving delegation of work and review of work products.
The successful individual will have good written and verbal communication skills and be able to discuss complex technical matters with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
* Degree in an electrical, electronic or software engineering related discipline.
* At least six years relevant engineering experience (in a senior systems/software/electronics position) on digital communications projects.
* The position requires the candidate to currently hold or be able to obtain a UK security clearance.
Preferred Additional Skills (knowledge of one or more of the following is desirable):
* Writing of technical documentation (eg specifications, white papers).
* Working in a multi-disciplinary engineering team (especially with system, software and electronics engineers).
* Detailed knowledge and experience of systems engineering practices and techniques.
* Detailed knowledge of Real Time Embedded systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and related technologies.
* Knowledge of UML (or SysML or similar) and associated tools.
* Computer literate (with good knowledge of Microsoft Office and other desktop applications).
* Understanding of the design life cycle including requirements, design methodologies and configuration management.
* Ability to work within a flexible team environment.
* Must be internal and external customer focused.
* Ability to effectively manage time and prioritise activities to ensure efficient and effective support.
* Ability to assess immediate issues and provided direction for resolution.
* Pro-actively takes ownership of situation within skill set and lead through to satisfactory resolution
* Military RF communications systems, Software Defined Radio (SDR) and RF modulation.
* Development of communication waveforms.
* Development of Embedded systems.
* Systems integration experience.
* Digital, analogue and RF circuit design and analysis.
* VHDL and FPGA design.
* Schematic capture tools (eg Cadence, OrCAD).
* Software development tools.
* MATLAB and other engineering design tools.
* Hands on experience with electronic test equipment (eg oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, logic analysers).
* Requirement management tools (eg DOORS).
* Understanding of technical risk management.

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