System Design Engineer

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

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.

System Design Engineer

Glasgow

Opportunities have arisen for experienced systems engineers to deliver the role of Requirements Engineer, System design and System acceptance in Thales OME.

The successful candidate will be a talented Systems Engineer with experience of conceptual and detailed design, Integration and delivery, coupled with a proven capability of delivering mission systems.

The role can be based in Bristol, Glasgow, Reading or Bury St Edmunds. Depending on the specific projects the role may require periods of time to be spent at Customer sites and/or integration facilities.

The candidate will have demonstrable experience interfacing with internal and external customers, understanding system requirements, working with mechanical design engineers to specify and accept sub system designs as well as creating verification and validation programs in the defence domain.

The role holder reports to the Systems Engineering Discipline Manager.

The key individual responsibilities are:

• To creates the technical specifications with acceptance criteria for subsystems,

• To decompose requirements, ensuring that they have been partitioned and detailed to a level appropriate for the design to commence.

• To ensure, with the support of Specialty Engineering experts & Safety/HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) stakeholders:

  • That candidate solutions meet regulatory requirements including all applicable standards and legislation. This includes product safety & security and Environmental/HSE requirements and standards,

  • That solution designs take into account the contractual requirements,

  • That all related certification activities are performed correctly;

• Development of design elements to meet the required performance within the overall vehicle

• To define the integration, verification, validation, qualification, certification and acceptance methods,

• Be responsible for collated results and evidence.
  

Essential Skills:

• Proficient in the use of Requirement Management tools (e.g. DOORS) and or;

• Experience in System design and development of complex hardware and software systems and or;

• Experience in working with subcontracted design element s in creating an overall coherent system and or:

• Experience of creating verification and validation programs.

• Proven track record of working and delivering on solutions for a defence programme

• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple product development and specialist domain teams.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and experience of vehicle system architectures

• Knowledge and experience of vehicle acceptance within the UK MOD

• Ability to use tools such as Matlab, Simulink & MathCad

• Ability to use, for the purpose of collaborative work with hardware engineers, CAD packages such as Creo, Catia or Solid works

• Possesses knowledge of the fundamentals of Model Based Systems Engineering and SysML. Experienced in the use of Rhapsody, Capela or Enterprise Architect

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