Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer Bristol – £60,000 to £75,000, Pension, Bonus, Flexible Working, Excellent Career Progression.

Melbreck is working with a world leader specialising in the design and manufacture of specialist systems for the aerospace sector. The business has been around for over 80 years. Due to a strong start in 2026, and as part of their strategic succession planning, they are looking to increase their technical capabilities within their R&D Department. They are looking for a talented Senior Systems Engineer to join their team ASAP.

Senior Systems Engineer Role Overview:

• Help ensure all products and systems meet requirements and standards ARP
  4761 and ARP
  4754.
• Develop and recommend solutions to meet functional hazard assessments, preliminary system safety assessments, and system safety assessments.

Senior Systems Engineer

Role Responsibilities:

• Analyse industry requirements to create design proposals from scratch for new designs.
• Lead and support design proposals to meet customer requests and propose new designs to meet industry needs.
• Capture requirements, write system and sub‑system specifications and descriptions.
• Work through development assurance levels to understand potential failures using fault tree analysis, failure mode effect analysis, and common cause analysis on new systems.
• Model solutions, deliver design reviews, and validate design solutions.
• Create verification specifications and standard operating procedures for testing and verification.
• Over time, become the subject‑matter expert of system safety.

Systems Engineer Candidate Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (BS) or Professional Engineer (PE) certificate in an engineering or science technical discipline, ideally aerospace.
• Good all‑round knowledge of electronic systems.
• Previous working knowledge of ARP
  4761 and ARP
  4754, or demonstrable experience from a safety‑critical industry and proven capability at working on complete systems or products (e.g., medical devices, defence, or nuclear).
• Knowledge of the aerospace product area and domain with breadth of industry practices, techniques, regulations, and policies – a significant advantage.
• Proficiency with engineering design and analysis tools.
• Ability to travel when required to US locations and Mainland Europe to support aircraft testing.

Senior Systems Engineer Hours and Benefits:

• 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home.
• Up to 10% bonus.
• Up to 17% pension.
• Excellent employee welfare schemes and programs.

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