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Chief Systems Engineer

  • Location: England
  • Salary: Up to £75000.00 per annum per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 1 year ago

  • Sector: Defence & Aerospace
  • Contact: Rick Bloor
  • Contact Email: r.bloor@jamrecruitment.co.uk
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Client: BAE Systems
  • Expiry Date: 21 September 2022
  • Job Ref: BH79184RB_1660150632

Chief Systems Engineer

The Role

As a Chief Systems Engineer, you will be leading a team of experienced engineers to support and improve the capability of the engineering delivery teams who develop the heart of one of the UKs biggest defence programs.

  • Providing leadership to Combat System engineering discipline subject matter experts in the assessment, development and deployment of improved policies processes and work instructions.
  • Maintenance of high levels of engineering capability within the Combat Systems engineering function.
  • Assessing and reacting to the SQEP functional capability based on future needs of the business.
  • Ensuring the development of engineers by recommending both appropriate functional training and career development options.
  • Ensuring consistent ways of working across programmes within the engineering function.
  • Ensuring that the requirements for engineering systems and tools are clearly defined in support of functional needs.
  • Identifying and implementing performance improvements to Integrated Combat System programme engineering delivery.

This role will give you the opportunity to work on cutting edge defence programmes that will provide you with work longevity and unrestricted career development into other areas of the company.

In return you will receive a salary up to £75,000 option for a hybrid and flexible working arrangement and an industry leading benefits package including a company contributed share incentive plan.

Essential Criteria

  • You will be an experienced manager or leader with an engineering background leading teams to analyse, improve, implement and measure improvements to policies, processes and work instructions.
  • You'll have an excellent understanding of the system development lifecycle, preferably in the defence industry, against the standard 'V-model' from requirement definition to customer acceptance.
  • You'll have a degree level qualification in relevant STEM subject (Engineering/ Physics/ Maths/ Science) or equivalent industry experience.

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