Systems Engineer

Location :
Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Our purpose is to be the leading provider of underwater sensor systems and decision superiority. We’re helping navies across the globe keep the world, our friends, our families and all of us safe.

In Anti-submarine Warfare (ASW), we put huge numbers of sensors on every submarine, which locate and provide data about other submarines and objects. Our world-leading sonar technology is used across the entire UK submarine fleet.

The primary purpose of this role is to support your Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM) and the bid / project team to design, develop and deliver complex systems on‑time and on‑budget through good systems engineering practices in order to meet our goals.

As part of the Thales Systems Engineering process you will interact with the following key roles:

• Engineers at all levels
• Engineering Delivery Managers
• Product Design Authorities
• Programme and Project Managers
• Supply Chain members
• Commercial team members
• Testing and Installation team members
• Sales and Marketing

The list below is not exhaustive nor will individuals be expected to be able to undertake all of them. They are given as a guide as to the expected duties of the grade.

• Converts requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, simulations and technical trade‑off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features.
• Good understanding of the systems development lifecycle and lifecycle products.
• Writing and execution of Test Specifications including:
  • Writing of test plans and test strategy documents
  • Writing of test specifications, working from system requirements
  • Execute test specifications (according to test plan and project schedule)
  • Record results of test execution
  • Raise / investigate / verify defects
  • Maintain quality target / standard
• Able to create outline designs from requirements using a variety of design toolsets. Similarly, creates new concepts or modifies existing concepts to fulfil requirements where necessary.
• Prepares system and subsystem requirement specifications, interface requirements and test requirement documents by analysing, decomposing modelling and refining customer requirements.
• Performs technical / engineering tasks to define system design and subsystem requirements details. Analysis and simulations are performed as necessary to identify design feasibility & driving requirements
• Accurately reports work progress and estimates to complete against work packages assigned by line manager.
• Investigates problems in the field or with the systems documentation.
• Develop, implement and maintain tools relevant to the Systems Engineering function. Assist in the assessment of relevant tools to encourage continuous improvement.
• Keep abreast of technical development both within and outside of the company.
• Produce quality metrics to measure the soundness of the System Engineering and to support your EDM in reporting progress.
• Working with project planners to provide…