Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by Matchtech
£70 Per hour
Inside
Onsite
Bristol
Summary: The role of Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer involves supporting a defence client on a 12-month contract in Bristol, focusing on the Land Ceptor project. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to plan and execute trials that demonstrate system integration and validation. The engineer will also analyze system behavior and support failure investigations to ensure safe and reliable trials. This role demands effective communication and teamwork across multiple departments and sites.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with stakeholders across the project to plan trials for integration and qualification of Land Ceptor.
- Liaise with systems engineering and design teams to acquire trials data and resolve design issues.
- Analyse and report on system behaviour across internal and external interfaces.
- Deliver trials in various environments, including lab-based integration, System of Systems integration, acceptance, and firing trials.
- Conduct and support failure investigations.
- Support safe and reliable trials by developing risk assessments and managing hardware and software assets.
Key Skills:
- Experience communicating with engineering and management stakeholders.
- Experience working within a large team across multiple sites and departments.
- Experience with V&V lifecycle, requirement and configuration management, and defect reporting.
- Beneficial experience with Wireshark, network systems and protocols, switch and router configuration, DOORS & ETM tools, and fault finding.
- Basic understanding of network/cable assembly drawings.
Salary (Rate): £70/hour
City: Bristol
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Location: Bristol (3-5 days per week onsite)
Duration: 12 month contract
Rate: £70ph UMB (Inside IR35)
Role details:
We are looking for 2 x Integration and System Validation Engineers to support our defence client on a contract basis. Based in Bristol, this opportunity is associated with the Land Ceptor project, involving collaboration with multiple customers and industry partners within the UK and on export contracts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with stakeholders across the project, from within partner companies and from the customer community, to plan trials to demonstrate integration and gather evidence to qualify Land Ceptor into a wider System of Systems environment
- Liaise with the systems engineering team and design teams to ensure adequate trials data is acquired and to investigate and resolve design issues.
- Analyse and report on in-depth analysis of the system behaviour across its internal and external interfaces.
- Deliver trials in a number of environments, including: Lab-based integration and functional rigs; System of Systems integration trials; Acceptance trials; Firing trials;
- Conduct and support failure investigations.
- Support safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments, management of hardware and software assets and control of hardware and software configuration.
Job Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Experience communicating at an appropriate level with a wide and varied range of both engineering and management stakeholders;
- Experience working within a large team, across multiple sites and with multiple departments;
- Experience with V&V lifecycle, requirement and configuration management and defect reporting.
Experience in these areas would also be beneficial:
- Wireshark network monitoring tool usage;
- Network systems and protocols, experience of switch and router configuration and management;
- DOORS & Engineering Test Management (ETM) requirements tools;
- Basic understanding of network / cable assembly drawings;
- Fault finding and route cause analysis at subsystem integration level;
- Experience in customer facing roles.
Join our client's dynamic team and contribute to an exciting project within the Defence & Security sector. Apply now to indicate your interest in this position.