Principal Requirements and Acceptance Engineer

About the job

Principal Requirements and Acceptance Engineer
Location: Bristol
Compensation: £49,627 - £58,102 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54085

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Principal Requirements and Acceptance Engineer at our Bristol site.

The role

As an Principal Requirements and Acceptance Engineer you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for defining, managing, and verifying requirements, and ensuring that all systems meet the acceptance criteria.

Day to day, you'll Manage the assurance and acceptance process with our customers and suppliers, as well as:

• Deriving and managing requirements for systems and sub-systems.
• Ensuring requirements compliance is maintained throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Defining acceptance methodologies for system and sub-system requirements.
• Providing R&A guidance to the wider project
• Providing input into various design reviews.
• Supporting system certification

This role is full time and based at our Bristol site.

Essential experience of the Principal Requirements and Acceptance Engineer:

• Experience in Requirements elicitation and management and/or acceptance of complex systems.
• Experience of using requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles.

Qualifications for the Principal Requirements and Acceptance Engineer:

• Degree level qualification in STEM subject (Science/Technology/Engineering/Maths) or equivalent industry / armed forces experience.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 30/10/2023