Principal Systems Engineer (GRD)

Principal Systems Engineer (GRD)

Ultra Electronics Command & Sonar Systems - Greenford

Job Reference: JUL20200183

Salary: Competitive

Engineering Contract: Permanent - Full Time

Closing Date: August 25, 2020

Ultra Electronics Command & Sonar Systems

A part of the Ultra Electronics Group, we are a UK based solutions provider and systems integrator operating in the Defence and Aerospace markets, delivering world leading products, solutions and services to our national and international customers.

We are currently seeking to recruit audacious and highly capable people to work on cutting edge technologies and inspire our up and coming team members to deliver best in class results.

At Ultra CSS you will:

• be part of an agile organisation, with the ability to make a real difference
• have the opportunity to be involved in multiple domains and projects, throughout the engineering lifecycle
• work in a dynamic environment, with the ability to make significant personal impact
• have exposure to all functional and business areas, with opportunities to broaden your knowledge
• be in an environment where talent is recognised and promoted, independent of experience
• have the opportunity to work on exciting new product developments
• work for the dominant provider of UK surface ship Anti-Submarine Warfare solutions, with many related export opportunities

We operate in the following areas:

Underwater Warfare: this includes working on game changing naval Integrated Sonar System (ISS), hull mounted anti-submarine warfare sonar system,  towed array sonar systems, surface ship and submarine torpedo defence and countermeasures, and distributed anti-submarine warfare systems (sonobuoys), including Multi-Static Active (MSA) technologies.

Maritime: this includes new build and modernisation solutions for naval combat systems, combat management systems, electro optical surveillance and tracking, weapon fire control and servo control and signature measurement solutions for both surface and sub-surface platforms.

Land: this includes vision systems and turret servo control and the capability to implement improvements and upgrades across all electronic systems for armoured fighting vehicles.

C2ISR: this includes deployable Air Command and Control and data link systems as well as complex surveillance and security solutions for maritime surface, underwater and land borders.

Through-life Support: solutions are also part of our offering, including contractor logistics support, waterfront support, spares and inventory management, technology refresh of own and third party systems.

Purpose of Role

Ultra Electronics Command & Sonar Systems (UECSS) have an exciting new opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer seeking a new challenge. UECSS is experiencing growth in its Distributed Anti-Submarine Warfare (D-ASW) segment across a range of innovative new products at different levels of maturity and requires additional experienced system engineers to develop the next generation of its ASW solutions. Those involve multiple disciplines (Electronics, Algorithms, Software, Mechanical) from early prototyping to early trial through to full production and as such provide a rich technical background on which to thrive.

This is an opportunity to grow your career within an innovative and progressive environment through exposure to ground-breaking technologies and systems. No two days at Ultra are the same, and you will have the opportunity to develop your systems engineering skills across the whole lifecycle in the underwater warfare and maritime domains.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Leading the systems activities on a project you will apply sound engineering judgement to ensure projects are delivered to cost, schedule, and quality requirements.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Delivering the systems engineering tasks for a project within the allocated budget and timeframe.
• Coordinating the project engineering team to develop and deliver a solution that is technically and commercially acceptable.
• Generating, understanding, and reviewing user requirements.
• Performing requirement analysis and flow down to system and sub-system levels.
• Developing and documenting system architecture, design, and acceptance and verification strategies.
• Ensuring that the specification, design, and acceptance information is fully traceable.
• Leading all the activities relating to systems validation and acceptance.
• Providing input to project schedules through regular and clear progress reports.
• Supporting bids by providing technical solutions, estimates, and plans.

Personal Attributes

A motivated and natural leader with a passion for successfully delivering the customer expectations, you will:

• Be able to gather data using both your own logical thinking and the surrounding project team, in order to draw valid and justifiable conclusions.
• Display excellent interpersonal skills and possess the empathy and skill to adapt your communication style to build rapport with a broad range of internal and external customers.
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of your work.
• Be capable of actively growing your network across the business, building trusting relationships and positively influencing others in order to deliver upon your objectives.
• Be willing to coach/mentor less senior members of the team to aid and monitor their development, providing feedback to performance reviews.
• The role is office based with occasional travel to other company/customer’s sites in the UK or abroad.

Benefits

Ultra Electronics offers a competitive salary, bonus scheme based on company profit/cash targets, 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional 5 days, a flexible UltraSelect benefits scheme you can tailor to suit your needs, competitive Pension scheme with Life Assurance, flexible start/finish times, a confidential Employee Support Helpline, free car parking