Key Responsibilities

• 🛠️ Lead and coordinate project-wide systems engineering activities to deliver safe, effective, and integrated engineering solutions.
• 📋 Define, manage, and control project-level requirements, ensuring full traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• 🔗 Ensure engineering outputs from multiple disciplines are successfully integrated into a viable, compliant, and deliverable system solution.
• 🎯 Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, driving collaboration and engineering excellence.
• 📊 Support structured decision-making, balancing technical, safety, programme, and project requirements.
• ✅ Ensure engineering scope is clearly defined, controlled, verified, and validated from concept through to delivery.
• 🔍 Champion a robust systems engineering approach, ensuring all solutions meet quality, safety, regulatory, and customer requirements.
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Qualifications

🎓 Essential

🎓 Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline.

🤝 Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution.

🏅 Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or demonstrable route toward chartership (desirable depending on project needs).

🛠️ Essential Experience

⚙️ Significant experience in an engineering design environment where systems thinking and integration are key attributes.

👥 Demonstrable experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering coordination activities.

📋 Experience defining, capturing, and managing project-level requirements, including functional and derived requirements.

🗣️ Experience facilitating structured requirements and value management workshops.

🔗 Experience ensuring traceability between requirements, design outputs, and verification strategy.

📊 Experience supporting technical optioneering and structured decision-making processes.

⚠️ Experience identifying and managing cross-discipline technical risks and interface risks.

📄 Experience developing and maintaining systems-level documentation (e.g., requirement specifications, system architectures, interface control documents).

🛡️ Experience working within regulated or safety-critical environments.

🤝 Strong stakeholder management capability and ability to build technical consensus.

📘 Desirable

📜 Systems Engineering accreditation (e.g., INCOSE ASEP/CSEP or equivalent).

🎓 Formal training in requirements management and verification & validation methodologies.

📚 Postgraduate qualification in systems engineering or a related discipline (advantageous).

🚀 Desirable Experience

☢️ Experience operating in a nuclear or highly regulated environment.

🔄 Experience across multiple lifecycle phases (Appraise, Define, Deliver).

⚠️ Experience supporting hazard identification and ensuring hazards are appropriately addressed within system design.

✅ Experience defining verification and validation strategies proportionate to risk and lifecycle phase.

🏢 Familiarity with Sellafield governance processes and gated lifecycle.

🧰 Experience working with systems engineering methodologies and tools.