Integration and System Validation Engineer

12 months+ contract duration

Based in Bristol (3-5 days on site; rest remote)

We are looking for a Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer to join an Integration and Systems Validation team on the Land Ceptor project. This is a lab-based position. The project provides an opportunity with work with a variety of customers and industry partners in the UK and on export contracts.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a broad-based Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer who will be able to:

• Work with stakeholders across the project, from within partner companies and from the customer community, to plan trials to demonstrate integration and gather evidence to qualify Land Ceptor into a wider System of Systems environment
• Liaise with the systems engineering team and design teams to ensure adequate trials data is acquired and to investigate and resolve design issues.
• Analyse and report on in-depth analysis of the system behaviour across its internal and external interfaces.
• Deliver trials in a number of environments, including:
  • Lab-based integration and functional rigs;
  • System of Systems integration trials;
  • Acceptance trials;
  • Firing trials;
• Conduct and support failure investigations.
• Support safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments, management of hardware and software assets and control of hardware and software configuration.

Skills required:

We are looking for an Engineer with the following skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills;
• Communicating at an appropriate level with a wide and varied range of both engineering and management stakeholders;
• Working within a large team, across multiple sites and with multiple departments;
• Proven ability with V&V lifecycle, requirement and configuration management and defect reporting.
• Network systems and protocols, experience of switch and router configuration and management
• Fault finding and route cause analysis at subsystem integration level

Skills in these areas would also be beneficial:

• Wireshark network monitoring tool usage;
• DOORS & Engineering Test Management (ETM) requirements tools;
• Basic understanding of network / cable assembly drawings;
• Fault finding and route cause analysis at subsystem integration level;
• Experience in customer facing roles.

Additional:

This role will provide potential opportunities to travel abroad, as well as a great opportunity to work in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment with guaranteed diverse work.

We seek an Engineer who has worked in a military / defence environment / industry within the last 12 months or who can obtain UK security clearance (SC level minimum)