Role Description
You will have the opportunity to work on one of a variety of our programmes and projects, helping us to design, develop, integrate, manage and support complex systems and combat sub-systems for in- service submarines. You will work with other technical specialists and may manage a team of other engineers to understand and influence the inputs, flow of decisions and dependencies that will impact system design and product delivery.
You will be able to understand and report the programme status for engineering activities in your area of responsibility, be able to identify problem areas and implement recovery plans, helping us to support our submarines that play a critical role in our nation's defence.
Main Responsibilities
- Supporting the development of design solutions to agreed time, cost and quality to support project and business milestones, and ensuring that your work meets its contractual, safety and environmental obligations.
- Ensuring that technical and performance requirements of the combat systems and products are correctly identified, and working at the relevant point of the engineering lifecycle to ensure that these systems are designed, built, integrated and accepted into service, with the correct level of authority. This will also include working with suppliers and the military users of our equipment.
- -Providing technical support to shipbuilder installation and/or integration activities (included in-service refitting authorities). You will have or develop an understanding of the customer Operational Defect (OPDEF) and maintenance processes to be able to provide specialist technical advice as required.
Desirable skills
- Understanding and interpreting the requirements for the combat system or products and be able to understand and support the flow-down of requirements
to suppliers and acceptance of their specific deliverables, ensuring it is captured and recorded appropriately. - Working at the relevant point of the engineering lifecycle to ensure that these systems are designed, built, integrated and accepted into service,
with the correct level of authority; this will also include working with suppliers and the military users of our equipment - Developing the functional design of that system using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques and tools such as Enterprise Architect; its
architecture, components and interfaces, and be able to understand the potential impact of change on the boat and key sub-systems. - Undertaking the integration, verification and validation of Submarine Combat Systems
- Ensuring design-proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management tools and has been endorsed by the appropriate level
of authority - Delivering your outputs to agreed time, cost and quality to support project and business milestones, and ensuring that your work meets its contractual,
safety and environmental obligations - Providing technical support to shipbuilder installation and/or integration activities (included in-service refitting authorities). You will have or
develop an understanding of the customer Operational Defect (OPDEF) and maintenance processes to be able to provide specialist technical advice as required - Providing technical guidance and to other engineers and support project and engineer management teams in planning and controlling your
specialist activities - Liaison with the Customer and external stakeholders regarding requirements and outputs.
- You will often be the task lead, coordinating several other engineers across the business to ensure that the task is completed to the
estimate and in a timely manner and the output meets expectations - Support to programme level design reviews, including stakeholder coordination, design baseline and voids management.
JAM Recruitment is acting as an employment business with regards to this position.
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