Pay rate up to £44.95 per hour PAYE and up to £60 per hour through an Umbrella

An experienced Systems Design Engineer is required to work on a contract assignment for 6-12 months, with the possibility of a further extension supporting our prestigious Defence client based at their site in Stevenage.

Overview of your role and the department you will be assigned to:

The role is for a Systems Design Engineer to work on a project which is developing, building and testing real hardware for a key missile sub-system. The role is to design the architecture and to develop the technical requirements for a seeker.

Your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Provide support to integration and testing teams in capturing test requirements and plans in DOORS

Flow-down of system requirements to subsystem requirement specifications.
Define and maintain design justification record providing linkage from system requirements to subsystem requirements.
Development of system-level test sequences.
Liaise with subsystem teams, to ensure design proposals take into account existing design constraints.
Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) - increasingly adopted within the System Engineering domain.
Supporting safety, security and reliability aspects of projects
Support customer working groups as required.

You will have the following skills and experience to carry out your duties:

You will be able to perform requirements analysis and trade off studies to flow down requirements to seeker sub-assemblies, firmware and software
You will be able to demonstrate your systems engineering experience
You will be able to demonstrate exposure to system requirements, as well as developing system architecture models and configuration control
You will have knowledge of DOORS, Rhapsody or other SysML tools
You will be able to discuss, hardware, firmware or software design constraints
Knowledge of RF is desirable
Have a willingness to learn about the project, tools and methods
Demonstrate persistence to get the job done
Ability to work as part of a fast-paced team

The role is based in Stevenage which offers excellent transport links, is in close proximity to London Stansted Airport and is commutable from Hitchen, Letchworth Garden City, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, Hertford, Bishop's Stortford, Hoddesdon and Harlow.

Due to the nature of the work our client is involved with, suitable candidates will already be SC cleared or eligible to gain this level of clearance.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.