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Principal Systems Engineer

Employer
Electus Recruitment
Location
Aylesbury
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
12 Apr 2019

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Clearance Level
SC
Sector
Aerospace, Defence, Engineering
Job Type
Permanent
Your knowledge of Systems Engineering (especially design) and strong experience of working across the project lifecycle, will play a crucial part maintaining the correct level of systems design leadership throughout Aerospace projects (mainly relating to electrical power generation and distribution systems). As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will work as a key figure within a flexible engineering environment, this role will become part of a team of highly motivated, skilled and experienced individuals.

You will be at the leading edge of technological innovation, working for an international high-technology group, operating in the aircraft propulsion and equipment, space and defence markets. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant environment.

Read on for specifics on the role. To apply click the Apply Now button at the bottom of the page.

About the Role:

The client requires a Principal Engineer - Systems Design whose primary activities relate to electrical power generation and distribution systems, and include:
*System requirement definition, working with the customer in a team context
*System design including architectures, performance analysis and integration aspects
*Requirement management and compliance analysis
*Responsible for Systems related technical decisions and providing the Systems interface to the customer.
*Supervise and hold technical responsibility for the work of others, and ensure a high level of quality is maintained
*Participation in system test rig design, test rig commissioning and system testing
*Support of system testing at the site and customer's facility
*Preparation of documentation with the end goal of system qualification and aircraft certification (including system specifications, interface control documents, system description documents, test specifications and reports)
*Accountability for compiling and collating documentation for Safety of Flight / Certification, and issuing the System Declaration of Design and Performance (DDP)
*Generation of Project plans and Monthly Execution Plans (MEP) and attending daily stand-up meetings to ensure the Programme Engineering budget is met
*Supporting new business growth in promoting the company's capability to customers, in investigating possible opportunities and in preparation of responses to customer Requests for Proposal


About You:

To be suitable for the Principal Systems Engineer role, you will need to be educated to Degree in a related discipline or have equivalent experience with experience of successfully delivering Systems projects. You will have a strong interest in systems design and integration, and their application to electrical power generation and distribution, and a broad understanding of, aircraft or other complex safety-critical systems. You will need to have used DOORS software and have an understanding of interpreting customer and internal specifications to extract technical requirements. A good understanding of the System Engineering process and its application to the product lifecycle is needed including; System architecture decomposition and definition, Integration V&V planning, System requirement definition, Validation, Implementation, System verification etc.

Principal Engineer - Systems Design
Aylesbury
Permanent
Salary Negotiable

Keywords: Systems engineer, Requirements, Analysis, Design, Review and Verification, V&V, Integration, DOORS, V-model, Lifecycle, Aerospace, Architecture.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

This is a permanent position.

Electus Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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