Principal Systems Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Babcock Technology Centre
Compensation: Bristol Band 7 (£53,020.00 - £64,883.00)
Role Type: Full time
Role ID: SF: 50202

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

The role

As a Principal Systems Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is a highly prestigious position within our complex shipbuilding programme, developing designs through concept and early-stage design as well as supporting the bidding process.

Day to day,

• Provide leadership and accountability in the delivery of systems engineering activities through the application of process, domain knowledge and experience. You will work as a system engineering subject matter expert. You will understand concepts and principles, to design, develop and determine solutions to functional issues; and personally undertake the most complex work within the subject area.
• You will design, structure, and write requirement sets and their associated acceptance criteria. You will create and maintain the requirements database, development of the Supplier requirements and their traceability to the customer requirement. You will lead the acceptance process to demonstrate the customer requirement has been met.
• You will plan, deliver, and monitor the systems engineering scope of work within a project. Manage systems engineering risks and manage the technical interface with internal and external stakeholders.
• You will provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working, and their development. You will provide coaching, and assistance as needed. You will work closely with others in multi-disciplinary teams perform system definition activities.
• In addition, you will belong to the wider engineering capability group and will have the opportunity to support other projects in different roles within your discipline with a focus on longer term career development while providing help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working, and their development.

Essential experience of the Principal Systems Engineer

• Ideally, you will be Degree qualified but HND/HNC level qualification in a Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Engineering discipline with extensive experience in relevant field will be considered
• You will be a member of a relevant institution and either hold Chartered Engineer status or be working towards it
• You will have detailed knowledge and experience of managing and leading systems engineering
• You will have an analytical approach and a desire for complex problem solving
• You will be a team player with strong presentation, written and oral communication skills
• You will have experienced requirement management tool user e.g., DOORS
• You will have high level of competence in using Microsoft Excel
• You will be either already UK Security cleared or able for achieve UK SC clearance

This Role is a hybrid role based at Bristol with an average 2/3 days per week on site.

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

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, 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
• For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International

For over 130 years 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.