System Engineer

Systems Engineer - Nuclear Hardening 6 month contract Based in Portsmouth Offering £80ph Inside IR35 Do you have working knowledge of Nuclear Hardening? Do you have experience working on MilSatComs? Do you want to work with an industry-leading company? If your answers are yes to these, then this could be the role for you! As the Systems Engineer - Nuclear Hardening, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry! Due to the nature of the work you will be involved in, you will be required to obtain high-level MOD Security Clearance. You will be involved in:

• Support the Systems team in designing a compliant equipment installation design with associated test plans and compliance evidence
• This support spans all aspects of the system lifecycle from initial design through installation to customer handover
• Identify the stakeholder for the solution to be developed and capture their needs and expectations
• Identify boundary of the solution to be developed
• Elicit and validate requirements for Nuclear hardening (NH) whilst considering the complete system lifecycle
• Design and define possible architectures, in collaboration with IS/IT specialists, considering the functions and other requirements (constraints)
• Identify mitigations to the NH requirements based on installation environment
• Identify responses to the NH requirements based on evaluation of NH processes in the context of a military fixed ground installation
• Produce NH analysis and mitigation plans as appropriate, including any relevant test plans
• Lead the engagement with test houses to fully define the approach
• Lead the engagement with customer stakeholders to fully agree the NH response
• Lead modelling using appropriate systems engineering techniques
• Lead analysis (e.g., performance)
• Perform trade-off analysis in order to select the best solution fulfilling the requirements
• Validate architecture
• Define and manage interface requirements
• Lead verification of the implementation and its interfaces
• Lead operational and in-service evaluation
• Lead impact analysis of any design change request during the entire product lifecycle Your skillset may include:
• Familiarity with NH standards
• Knowledge of NH analysis, test specifications, test procedures, test setups, test data
• Customer NH requirements analysis
• System level NH design, development and solutions, including GFE environments and mitigations
• NH Equipment selection
• Practical experience of installation of electrical equipment, including rack installation and compliant cabling practices
• Understanding of the effects of electrical equipment (and cabling) interference, and methods for mitigating interference
• Electrical safety certification
• Previous experience of generating test plans for sign off of electrical equipment installation, preferably with NH experience
• Verification, Validation & integration
• Transition to Operation
• Ability to safeguard security classified and/or export-controlled data.
• Military ground site installations and associated standards
• Military communications systems If this all sounds like something you will be interested in then simply apply and we can discuss the opportunity further!