System Engineer

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe

Job Overview

Support and execute systems engineering activities within the assigned Domain/Capability, delivering high-quality solutions for asset and transformation projects, ensuring alignment with performance, operational, and safety standards, and contributing to delivery within time, cost, and quality targets

Other Duties Include

• Requirements and Design Management: Support, and manage where appropriate, the development, validation, and management of requirements, interfaces, and system design proposals
• Systems Engineering: Contribute to the engineering deliverables for project(s) and/or asset(s)
• Team Support and Oversight: Provide guidance to junior engineers and contribute to team performance
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry, technology & business advancements and contribute to assessing system impacts

Autonomy

The role requires independent action to execute allocated tasks and ensure quality delivery with significant autonomy in problem-solving and individual task prioritisation, within the boundaries of NATS processes

Job Scope

• Co-ordination and Collaboration: Work with Project teams to clarify technical performance, requirements, timescales, and plans for delivering work packages and asset management tasks
• Requirements and Design: Elicit, analyse, review technical requirements and documentation to determine optimal solutions for the assigned Domain / Capability, ensuring alignment with project or asset objectives

Essential Skills and Experience

• The post holder is expected to hold, as a minimum, a Higher National Certificate in an Engineering or Information Technology related discipline, and relevant experience. Job holders not holding the expected qualification but who have undertaken structured technical training (e.g. apprenticeship recognised by a professional body) with recognised qualification ideally to at least HNC equivalent level will also be considered
• Experience in systems engineering, supporting technical teams, and working within safety-critical or real-time environments
• Good understanding of technical concepts within the Domain/Capability, with experience in a technology delivery environment, and familiarity with relevant national and international technical standards
• Strong problem-solving ability, understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle, effective communication skills, and the capability to mentor junior engineers when required

Additional Vacancy Information

This role is to support asset sustainment and transformation projects within the Flight Data Domain, including systems within Flight Data, Visualisation, Queue Management, Capacity Management, Separation Tooling, Datalink, Trajectory & Flow Management

Systems engineering experience within delivery/maintenance of Flight Data systems is desirable

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally - for more information on what NATS can offer you please visit - Why NATS?

We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. Find out more here

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry