Systems Engineer

Date Posted: 2024-12-18

Country: United Kingdom

Location: GBR13: Home - Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA

Position Role Type: Unspecified

Systems Engineer

Hybrid – UK wide travel as needed

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our business

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.

The role

Raytheon UK are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer with a background in defence or aerospace who is ideally knowledgeable about training development to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of requirements management, system design, interface management, integration, verification, validation (IV&V), and product qualification.

The successful candidate will have access to professional development opportunities and be part of the growing Defence Business in Raytheon UK, delivering engineering expertise across a wide range of projects to both military and civil customers worldwide.

This will be a hybrid role with the expectation that both Raytheon site and Customer site attendance will be required at times. This is expected to be around 20% of your time.

Main Duties:

• Working with the Training Solution Delivery Lead to define work packages and technical requirements.
• Individually contribute to the execution and delivery of key work packages.
• Undertaking activities associated with product specification and qualification.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assist in the procurement and implementation of advanced training devices.
• Contributes to problem resolution at a team level.
• Create and maintain documentation for system configurations, processes and procedures.
• Supporting and completing bid responses both at the Pre-Qualifying (PQQ) and Tender (ITN) stages.
• Carrying out Systems analysis and design work.
• Technical design reviews, oversight and governance.
• Supporting Customer questions and requests.

Candidate Requirements:

Essential:

• A relevant degree or equivalent training and at least 7 years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience in systems engineering, ideally on all sections of the V-model.
• Experience with systems engineering technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques.
• Experience writing scopes of work and acceptance criteria.
• Knowledge of the development of Systems of Systems.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, multi-discipline environment to produce deliverable products.
• Experience with Atlassian suite, working with Jira, Confluence, Dimension RM and DOORS.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools.
• Has, or is able to obtain, security clearance.
• Valid driving licence.

Desirable:

• Experience of training devices.
• Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
• Awareness of NAFv4 and/or TOGAF.

Competitive Benefits and Work Culture

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr).
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role).
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade).

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Raytheon UK, we are committed to fostering a workplace that champions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) as fundamental pillars of our organisational culture.