Principal Systems Engineer – Verification and Validation

Job description

Principal Systems Engineer – Verification and Validation

Would you like to work within a challenging role, providing support across submarine combat system programmes for the Royal Navy? We currently have a vacancy for a Principal Systems Engineer - Verification and Validation at our site in Frimley OR Weymouth.

As a Principal Systems Engineer - Verification and Validation, you will be looking at requirements processes and management of verification and validation evidence to ensure system acceptance by the customer (MoD).

This role will provide you with the opportunity to support all platforms, giving you exposure to both in-service and future submarine programmes.

Your main responsibilities as a Principal Systems Engineer – Verification and Validation will involve:

Liaising with both internal and external customers as required to ensure that their requirements acceptance strategy are adequately supported and that their needs are fully considered and incorporated and a clear route to acceptance is agreed

Producing system level integrated test, evaluation and acceptance plans; product specifications; and qualification and acceptance plans

Undertaking peer reviews of documentation or verification tasks

Collating and recording evidence to support requirements acceptance; providing requirements and acceptance metricised progress reports

Leading task requirements management including requirements acceptance definitions and input into DOORS; taking into account the broader Combat Systems functional and non-functional requirements for all submarine classes

Your skills and qualifications as a Principal Systems Engineer – Verification and Validation:

Essential:

Degree or equivalent experience in an Engineering discipline

Knowledge and experience with Systems Engineering principles and Requirements Engineering

Extensive experience of developing and maintaining coherent sets of requirements and acceptance criteria for complex systems

Experience of requirements engineering in a defence or complex systems industry

Desirable:

Knowledge of a defence platform combat or mission systems

What we're looking for in you:

We are looking for you to have excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to liaise with a variety of different people at different levels within the business. We are looking for you to have strong communication skills with the ability to work alone as well as part of a team.

Location: Frimley or Weymouth

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, childcare vouchers, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

BAE Systems

BAE Systems is one of the world's leading global defence, security and aerospace companies. We work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

Maritime Submarines – Combat Systems

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century. It currently employs approximately 7,700 people, with 500 of these working for Combat Systems across our sites in Barrow-in-Furness, Ash Vale, Broad Oak, Filton, Frimley and Weymouth.

We are currently responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of the Royal Navy's latest and most capable generation of attack submarines, as well as their intelligent Combat Systems trusted to detect threats in the naval environment.

Our Combat Systems team designs, builds, integrates and supports all of the submarine combat systems in the UK fleet – essentially, the eyes and ears of each platform. We provide through-life support for combat systems, sensors and radars, and deliver complex programmes and technologies by applying expert programme management and world-class engineering.

BAE Systems is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from sections of the community which are currently under-represented at BAE Systems, including women, BAME and applicants with disabilities. Please note we will not use any personal information relating to your background at any stage of the application process.

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