Principal Engineer - Equipment Requirement Authority

Your experience of systems requirements, and knowledge of complex hardware will help you to support the British Army as part of the Complex Warhead Centre of Excellence team (CW CofEx). As a Principal Engineer you’ll be working as the Requirement Authority for warheads or fuzes within one of the missile programmes. 
You will have the opportunity to work for a leading multi-national Defence systems provider which boasts some of most advanced facilities in their areas of expertise. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.  
 
About the job:
 
Our client currently requires a Principal Engineer - Equipment Requirement Authority. You will play a key role in the responsibility for the delivery into the missile programme of a major subsystem, including specification of the subsystem requirements, management of a subsystem supplier, timely delivery of hardware and documentation into the missile development cycle, agreement of the verification programme and oversight of trials.  
You'll be working in small and medium sized multi-disciplined teams in collaborative and innovative ways including AGILE best practice, to deliver challenging programmes to time, cost and quality. You will establish strong relationships with customers, partners and suppliers across the UK and Europe, managing the definition and delivery of work packages and subcontracts.
Within this exciting role you will develop relevant domain knowledge in warheads, explosives, fuzes and missiles, with opportunity to acquire new skills with simulation tools and analysis methods, and to implement new and emerging technologies. Experience in warheads or fuzes is not crucial to this role, but this is a great opportunity to become an expert in one or more missile subsystems and to present at senior level
About you:
As an Principal Engineer - Equipment Requirement Authority your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• A self-motivated and adaptable engineer
• Ideally educated to degree or HND level
• Experience in missile design is useful but not essential as training can be provided
• Good team-working skills, and the ability to quickly adapt and present technical data, are essential
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability to influence and negotiate with corporate and MoD partners
• Experience with requirements management would be beneficial
• Sensitive to cultural differences and able to adapt accordingly

Principal Engineer - Equipment Requirement Authority
Stevenage (possibly Bristol or Bolton)
Up to £48,000 - £55,000
Permanent
 
Keywords: Systems Engineer, Weapons System, Missile System, Fuzes, Warhead, Design, Requirements, Requirements Management, Verification, DOORS, Systems Architecture, Defence, Military, Land, Lifecycle management,
 
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. 
 
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, to SC level.
 
This is a permanent position.