SYSTEMS ENGINEER
- Until March 2025
- SC clearance required
- £50.00 per hour to £70.00 per hour
- Inside IR35
- 3 days per week in office + 2 days remote working
- Based in Luton
- 37.5 hours per week

Our client has an opportunity for a Contract Engineer to work in the Combat Air Sector - This role will focus on the development and upgrade of Defensive Aids SubSystems products. The role entails applying knowledge and experience of systems engineering to support the specification, design, development, integration and testing of these systems.

Typical work you might be involved in:
* Work alongside internal stakeholders to understand user needs and requirements with which to define and influence system requirements and designs, ensuring traceability for design compliance and acceptance.
* Develop and run test strategies to demonstrate design and implementation compliance, ensuring end-to-end traceability to achieve certification.
* Support system integration, verification, and validation activities to test and analyse performance and effectiveness.
* Develop and deliver engineering specifications, reports and presentations.

What we need from you
* A solid foundation in a relevant technical domain exploited in an EW systems context/application.
* High proficiency in requirements generation and management using IBM DOORS.
* Experience of authoring detailed design artefacts in support of requirements specifications.
* Good understanding of design compliance and acceptance criteria relating to requirements and architecture progressive verification and validation at varying stages of maturity.
* Strong understanding of systems engineering principles across the development life cycle.
* Previous experience of technical leadership of complex products.
* Ability to perform effective interface control management, both in terms of application and derivation, at a sub-system, system and system-of-system levels including the generation of interface control documents.
* Self-motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and driving challenging issues to a conclusion alongside excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
* Ability to obtain SC Clearance for UK-caveated programmes.

To be considered, please send through an updated CV.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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