Systems Engineer

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

The M-SET team are looking for a Systems Engineer to be involved in the transformation of the Systems Engineering workstream. The work required is focused around requirements management, working closely with the M-SET PDA to derive customer and internal requirements, monitor compliance and generate metrics for internal and external reporting as well as assisting with the transition from DOORs to Polarion.

Principal Relationships:

• M-SET Customer
• Services dDA
• M-SET PDA
• M-SET Engineering Delivery Manager
• Product/Project Design Authorities for the sonars
• Systems Engineering Team
• Services MCM Team Lead

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Requirements management of customer and internal requirements.
• Derivation and flow down of requirements to lower levels.
• Requesting and assisting with the compliance reporting from lower levels.
• Reporting compliance and generating metrics for top level internal and external use.
• Migration from DOORs to Polarion tooling.
• Creating and defining new processes to aid in Systems Engineering activities.

Skills – Essential

• DOORS/Polarion
• Systems Engineering and System Design – ability to write design documentation
• Self-starter – able to take a task and run with it with minimal supervision
• Word, Excel

Experience – Essential

• Systems Engineering
• Design, testing
• Documentation
• IVVQ
• Requirements Engineering

Experience – Desirable

• In-Service Support contracts
• Working with UK Royal Navy & MoD.
• MoD documentation.
• Hardware Design
• Software Design

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