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Your experience of systems engineering and weapon systems design will help you to join a Missile Systems Design team to develop and deliver the latest Complex Weapons capabilities for our Armed Forces.

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, and one of the engineers responsible for delivering a major capability. 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 Systems Engineer to at the heart of the product development process, evaluating customer technical requirements to develop product requirement specifications, utilising system design and modelling techniques to study system behaviour and support design choices, planning and managing verification and validation to demonstrate cutting edge functionality and performance. You will gain a detailed understanding of missile system design as part of a diverse engineering development team creating new and innovative system solutions for our products. The role will include;

Application of systems engineering practices across the ‘V-model’ to develop complex products
Managing partners, including customers or suppliers and an ability to build excellent working relationships
Application of Defence, Military or other aerospace standards and design assurance processes is useful
About you:
As a Missile Systems Design Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

Understanding of systems engineering tools (e.g. DOORS, Rhapsody) and applicable languages (SysML) is desirable
Experience of managing engineering work packages to deliver value outcomes, including co-ordination of other engineering teams and SMEs
A desire to develop and grow your systems engineering skills
Experience gained in defence or aerospace industry, in government or the armed forces is useful
Missile Systems Design Engineer
Stevenage
£35,000 - £55,000
Permanent
 
Keywords: Systems Design, Integration, systems architecting, Systems architecture, Design, Verification, Validation, V&V, Missile, Weapon systems, Defence, Military, Aircraft.
 
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

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