Job title: Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Dorchester. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role
Salary: Up to £ 70,000 (depending on skills and experience)
What You’ll Be Doing
- Oversight and responsibility for general systems engineering activities across the engineering lifecycle, as delegated by the METOC Engineering Delivery Lead
- Act as the point of contact with customers and/or suppliers in assigned areas on engineering matters, to resolve relatively complex problems and issues and to maintain awareness in both parties of priorities and objectives
- Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority
- Identify and declare any safety and quality concerns and raise opportunities for process improvements
- Through own personal and professional development, provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working and development
- Produce reports of a technical nature or plans and present information to line manager, project management team and peers.
- Delivering allocated tasks within budget and to timescales as agreed with the project management team
Essential
Your skills and experiences:
- Previous experience leading or managing a small team on a technical level
- Working experience and knowledge of all aspects of the Engineering lifecycle.
- A background in Hardware, Software or Systems Engineering
Applicants should ideally be Degree qualified or have equivalent experience, likely to be in a technology, engineering, science or IT related discipline.
Applicants should be a Chartered Engineer or hold another equivalent professional registration with a relevant institution.
Desirable
- A good understanding of systems engineering methodologies and practices
- Competence and capability with systems engineering tools
The METOC Team
The Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) System manages the manual input, and automatic collection and measurement of environmental parameters from environmental sensors. Our small METOC Team is a mixture of System Engineers from diverse backgrounds. Their experience ranges from working within the MoD, Industry and the lecturing environment. There is reliance on a team ethos to enable the Project outputs, this way of working will provide the successful candidate the opportunity to play a pivotal in the in the delivery of the METOC system to the Type 26 Batch 1 & Batch 2 and Hunter (Australia) programmes, based from the Dorchester office.
The role will require close collaborative working with the T26 and HCF customers, and other external stakeholders
Benefits
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 27th August. Interviews for this position will take place W/C 8th September.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
