Principal Systems Engineer - RF Systems

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Principal Systems Engineer - RF Systems

This is an immediate requirement for a Principal Systems Engineer or Lead Systems Engineer with RF Design experience.

A great opportunity has arisen for a Principal Systems Engineer to work for a leading communication design company based in the Tewkesbury area. This Principal Systems Engineer will be working on a number of new EW and Communication systems currently being developed for use in the home and international markets. Your role will be to take technical leadership of a specific product range and cover its lifecycle from bid through to delivery.

Although based in Tewkesbury, this role is commutable from Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester and Oxford

Re-locators are also welcome to apply and my client can offer assistance to those who qualify.

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JOB DESCRIPTION & REQUIREMENTS

Responsibilities for this Principal Systems Engineer role

- Leading system engineering aspects of development on communications and Electronic Warfare tenders and projects, typically worth £1-15m.

- Ensuring that systems engineering processes are employed throughout the project lifecycle.

- Providing technical input to project estimating and controlling processes.

- Providing overall technical leadership of multi-disciplined engineering team(s).

- Requirements management of the technical aspects of the project.

- Managing technical aspects of sub-contractor relationships.

- Leading bid preparation.

Requirements for this Principal Systems Engineer role

- 10+ year's experience in industry, with 3+ year's experience in a systems engineering role working on complex defence related projects.

- Totally conversant in the specification of receivers, transmitters, signal processing and high level software as applied to equipment and systems in the DC - 6GHz frequency range.

- A technical specialist in V/UHF RF based military systems.

- Good interpersonal skills to allow effective leadership of technical staff, internal support departments and customers.

- Practical knowledge of requirements management including experience of working with stakeholders (internal and external) to elicit, analyse and negotiate requirements.

- Proven ability to lead design reviews internally, with sub-contractors and with Customers.

- Experience in requirements management and the application of Validation and Verification traceability.

- The ability to multi-task across several projects.

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Due to the nature of the work at this site, applicants must be capable of achieving SC level UK security clearance. Current clearance is not a requirement.

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK

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