Principal​/Lead Systems Engineer - Naval

Job Description

We are looking for a Principal or Lead Systems Engineer to provide technical support within the Integrated Communication Systems (ICS) business group, covering Naval Systems.

We are looking for a Principal or Lead Systems Engineer to provide technical support within the Integrated Communication Systems (ICS) business group, covering Naval Systems.

Are you a Systems Engineer who loves contributing to the UKs Defence Industry and proven experience within defence communications? If so, then this could be the opportunity you have been wating for.

We are offering hybrid working at our dedicated site in Sunny Southampton and not to mention an award-winning benefits package.

Within the Naval Systems IPT, the projects are diverse and exciting. There is a portfolio of work from core products that have been in service for many years, requiring support alongside forward looking developments, technology demonstrators and research projects. With customer intimacy and close collaboration with other organisations across the industry, we work to achieve a market leading position in products primarily relating to RF, Comms and Networking based domains.

The opportunity to be involved as a Principal or Lead Systems Engineer represents a chance to be at the heart of a range of technologies and exciting projects across the full engineering lifecycle.

In this role, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary IPT, supporting the current Chief Project Engineers who are the technical leaders for our products and projects. These projects will push the boundaries of innovation, technology, and the ingenuity of our engineering community to provide the required level of performance and capability of our various customers.

• Own the technical solution for your system or sub-system, as delegated by the SDA, through all phases of the solution development by representing Leonardo with external stakeholders and representing the Line of Business with internal stakeholders to ensure all elements of Product development are considered as part of the integrated solution
• As a technical lead on the project, ensuring governance is followed and that you keep up to date on related processes and requirements
• Work closely with the SDA and wider development teams and supply chain to ensure that your system or subsystem is developed to meets the requirements flowed down from the higher system level requirements, taking into account the End Users need and looking to understand their Concept of Use and Operation
• Ensure your system or subsystem is compliant with any performance, legislative and contractual requirements, with a strategy for completing a traceable evidence set in place and that any deviations to compliance are clearly recorded and managed appropriately
• Support the assembly of evidence for your systems or subsystem to validate, verify and qualify in support of a Certificate of Design or Declaration of Design Performance
• Ensure robust quality, performance, cost and time trade-offs are undertaken and then to establish the technical solution coherent with the agreed budgets and timescales
• Provide technical direction, control, evaluation and recommendations with respect to risks and opportunities for your system or subsystem
• Lead and mentor more junior members of the technical team to enable a cost effective design programme and good product solution results
• Manage and communicate issues and opportunities to the Systems Design Authority

The Principal or Lead Systems Engineer will need to:

• Be able to achieve Design Authority (DA) status for systems and/or sub-systems, approved by the SDA and Chief Engineer Design Integrity, in accordance with the Leonardo Design Integrity framework.
• Work as a technical lead within their area of specialism, to ensure our products are implemented in accordance with the design and architecture approved by the SDA
• Ensure independent product assurance through Design Reviews and ensuring company processes are adhered to (eg functional reviews)
• Be responsible for ensuring the delivered product design, compliance, safety and integrity under…