Chief Systems Engineer

Job Description:

Your Impact Are you an experienced Systems Engineering leader, able to guide large teams?

Are you passionate about Systems Engineering?

Are you able to coach and develop the Systems Engineers of the future?

The Chief Systems Engineer acts as the focal point for Systems Engineering Governance and ensures our Systems Engineering capability trends in a positive direction. The role will provide a clear point of contact on Systems Engineering capability for the Sector Head of Engineering Projects, Sector Chief Engineer and the Head of Systems Engineering.

What we build is exciting, interesting, challenging and complex. A diverse product portfolio of airborne RF sensing technologies, with each programme at a different stage in its development lifecycle.  Given this complexity, it requires each programme to connect with the “Art of Systems Engineering” to ensure we are doing the right activities at the right time.

The focus of this role is to provide direction, guidance and expertise to ensure:

Our systems engineering team define the problem completely

Our teams reuse techniques and artefacts across the portfolio of projects

Our teams manage complexity through architecting our systems well

Our teams predict and mitigate emergent behaviours when operating at a system or system of systems level

Our projects create and enact the correct verification and validation strategy

As a Chief Systems Engineer, you will influence each product, its technical direction and our customers’ satisfaction.

We are looking for someone passionate about our products, with a systems-thinking approach and proven experience of forming and leading high performing teams. You will thrive in dynamic environments, with the ability to make decisions quickly under pressure and set a clear technical vision for the team.

Given the nature of the work at this level we are able to offer custom working, however some on-site working is expected.

What you’ll doAs the Chief Systems Engineer, you will:

Act as the point of contact for all things Systems Engineering to the Sector Chief Engineer, Head of Systems Engineering and Head of Engineering Projects Be a coach in the art of systems engineering

Provide expertise and guidance to ensure our engineers define the problem completely

Ensure programmes capture the views and needs of all our stakeholders, covering the full lifecycle and different stakeholder types, including bridging the gap between Engineering and Capability Ensure the right concepting, modelling and simulation techniques are used to identify and mitigate emergent properties

Champion Design for Excellence (DfX) concepts for Systems Engineering Provide expertise and guidance on System Architecting and System Synthesis concepts

Promote and provide guidance and expertise on “System of Systems Engineering”Act as the focal point for systems engineering governance, supporting Lifecycle Management (LCM) activities related to systems engineering such as bids, design reviews and audits

Champion innovative approaches and modern techniques across the full lifecycle

Hold quarterly threat and mitigation reviews across the sector

Represent Leonardo within Systems Engineering bodies and groups of interest, such as INCOSEIdentify trends across your sector, capturing and sharing lessons learned to improve the quality and efficiency of future work Provide the right metrics to capture improvements and opportunities

Own and drive a sector 6 month improvement plan aligned with the needs of the LoB and Systems Engineering improvement plan

Work with the Systems People & Capability Lead and project stakeholders to optimise the skills and capability profile across the sector

Enable and optimise collaboration across engineering disciplines

Deliver an agile approach to systems engineering, building a culture of experimentation and failing fast.

Understand what lies beyond our black boxes, promoting how digital technologies can be used to improve our systems approach

Champion Human Factors Integration approaches

Collaborate with your peers in similar roles across the UK to promote a culture of continual learning and improvement, acting as a change agent for systems…