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Integration & Systems Validation Engineer - Bristol

Aerospace & Defence
Ref: 166 Date Posted: Tuesday 15 Sep 2020

Integration & Systems Validation Engineer

Location:                Bristol

Salary:                   £30,000 - £45,000 P/A + benefits (Including Bonus, Overtime, Pension)

Hours:                   37 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer to join an ambitious, highly regarded, scientific engineering / manufacturing business that are in a position of sustained growth.

As an Integration & Systems Validation Engineer, you will undertake a range of Integration and System Validation activities, supplying specialist advice and support to projects as appropriate. This role is to support the integration and testing on Naval Platforms. The Integration & Systems Validation team must deliver multiple integration projects at the same time, and need a cohesive team that can move between these projects both on site and at test facilities in Bristol.

This is an opportunity at the heart of a major defence project, within a trials team for a suitable individual that will expose and involve them in a wide spread of system level trials. There is the potential for extensive off-site work once the individual has demonstrated that they are suitably experienced in the operation of equipment and processes that need to be followed. The Integration & Systems Validation Engineer will be expected to design tests, debug, conduct, analyse and report the trials as part of the wider trials team.

Duties and expectations

  • Trials Planning: Designing and planning trials including Dockyard trials, Sea Trials and Live Firing Trials to ensure that the required data is obtained from the trial.
  • Trials Conduct: the conduct of trials activities such as lab-based trials, Dockyard trials and Sea trials and Live Firing Trials in both UK and overseas locations.
  • Trials data gathering, analysis and reporting.
  • The conduct of lab-based compatibility activities.
  • Leading and supporting engineering activities on trials sites for various products for customers to demonstrate system operability.
  • Leading and supporting demonstrations and customer acceptance trials.
  • Prepare trials and integration documentation at all stages of a project life cycle.
  • Carry out investigations into a full range of engineering problems, and develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of a project team.
  • Define testing approaches and specify tests in assigned/specialist area(s).
  • Plan, control and deliver assigned projects or work packages, and make an input as required to cross-functional projects/investigations.

Skills Required 

Ideally Engineering or Science degree qualified or similar such as HND and Experience of working in one of the following environments:

  • System Integration
  • Design Proving and Trials
  • Naval Integration
  • Ground/Land Integration
  • Interface Design
  • System assessment and acceptance
  • Design Verification
  • Electrical / mechanical construction and interfacing
  • Electronic design/test
  • Good verbal, presentation and written communication skills
  • Be able to communicate with a wide range of internal customers, sub-contractors / partners/ suppliers at both engineering and management levels

You will need to be able and willing to gain (UK Eyes only) security clearance, potentially to DV level in the future.

Please note; Due to the occasional high amount of applications, it can be difficult to reply to everyone. If you haven’t been contacted within 1 working week, then you haven’t been successful on this occasion. However, thank you for your interest.

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