Systems Engineer

City of Bristol

Job summary

Recruiter:
Babcock International
Salary:
£Open (Depending On Experience)
Posted:
01/07/2024
Ref:
SF57772_1719821547
Discipline:
Systems Design
Sector:
Communications, Computing & IT/Hardware, Cyber Security, Defence, Design, Electronics, Marine
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full Time
Expiry Date:
29/07/2024

About the job

Job Title: Systems Engineer
Location: Bristol, Corsham, Harrogate or Devonport + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57772

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 Systems Engineer at our sites in Bristol, Corsham, Harrogate or Devonport.

The role
As a Systems Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is a great opportunity to play a senior role in a design team, working on new and exciting international projects as part of a rapidly expanding organisation.

Day-to-day, you'll work with the Principal Engineer and Design team, maturing system architecture, interface definition/design and producing contract engineering deliverables as well as:

  • Managing interfaces and trade-offs between systems, sub systems and functions and creating optimally compliant architectures and solutions in response to customer requirements, from concepts through to in life support
  • Leading the development, building, testing and trialling of solutions
  • Contributing to the creation of high-quality design documentation and requirements analysis
  • Participating in validation, verification, test and acceptance activities

This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with four days in the office/onsite and one day working from home.

Essential experience of the Systems Engineer:

  • Experience with complex systems integration
  • Knowledge of Interface management; production of Interface Control Documents (ICD) and Interface Design Descriptions (IDD)
  • Systems software and hardware integration experience
  • Knowledge of UK MOD practices and ways of working
  • Experience with requirements capture, management, and verification and validation

Qualifications for the Systems Engineer

  • HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience is valued and welcomed

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC clearance to start, and achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

  • 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


Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. 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.

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