Senior Systems Engineer

Overview

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• Job title:
  
  Senior Systems Engineer
• Salary: circa 80k (depending on skills & experience)
• Grade:
  Band 3
• Contract type:
  TfL, Permanent
• Reference: SF3320
• Contract details:
  Full time
• Location:
  
  Endeavour Square, Stratford
• Final date to receive applications:
  Wednesday 25th February @ 23:59

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you shall provide Systems Engineering professional expertise to the Systems Engineering function and lead/support project deliveries. This shall be achieved by establishing and systematically documenting the associated definition of customer/user needs and requirements early in the development cycle, followed by design synthesis, change and configuration control, systems integration, verification and validation to enable the successful and safe refurbishment, renewal, improvement and/or extension of TfL assets.

A systematic approach shall be deployed in considering the complete problem and the required outcome, including cost and schedule, performance, training, test, manufacturing, operations and disposal.

A Senior Systems Engineer applies significant expertise in the field of systems engineering developing and implementing complex engineering solutions, systematically, safely and within cost limitations. You shall interpret/develop technical strategy; check or produce designs, associated drawings, information, calculations and research; and provide technical guidance and advice in your position as a trusted source of engineering expertise in systems engineering for everyone, including our Heads of Engineering Delivery.

You may operate without any direct reports or may manage a team of other similar discipline engineers, dependent on the specific nature of the role and the size of the project, to which you are assigned. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you shall provide technical expertise and advice at a strategic and tactical level to support the development of Systems Engineering activity throughout TfL.

To be considered for the role, you will ideally have experience of and be able to supervise others in a number of the following areas:

• Systems engineering design, integration, verification and validation, requirements management, configuration management and change management at a senior level.
• Applying systems engineering to each stage of the project lifecycle.
• Defining, planning and delivery of engineering for innovative and complex systems, products and services.
• System Definition/architecture – ability to develop maintain and own a definitive system definition for a large multi stakeholder railway
• Developing innovative solutions to systems engineering challenges.
• Configuration management/Change Control – experience operating or chairing formal change control panels - Technical Systems Review Panel (TSRP) and Configuration Control Review Panel (CCRP).
• Requirements Compliance – experience managing non compliances and operational restrictions, including assessment, acceptance and closure
• Creating assurance submissions, including safety/assurance case management – understanding of safety critical systems and regulatory expectations for passenger service
• Supporting the achievement of system acceptance and handover.
• Specifying and procuring complex systems.
• Working independently without supervision and able to quickly understand complex issues and tasks.
• Stakeholder Management - skilled at interfacing with multiple organisations e.g. Network Rail and supplier like Siemens
• Leadership – ability to make evidence-based decisions in a safety critical high-pressure environment.
• Providing advice and guidance to team members.
• Working in a 'matrix'…