Maritime Services

We serve and protect those who serve and protect us. Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK Maritime Services Business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent. At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

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Our Maritime Services Business

Join us and help to define the future of global maritime defence capabilities. With approximately 3,500 employees based at five UK locations and revenue of £600million, we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around and offer significant opportunities for committed employees to learn and grow with us.

Our people are encouraged to be as creative as they can be and are always looking at ways to develop and challenge the way we do things, identifying and prioritising continuous improvement activities across the business.

With our international programmes and core support to the Ministry of Defence our highly skilled teams design, develop, support and maintain a wide range of complex equipment.

Join us and the projects you'll be involved in will positively impact our customers for decades to come. You'll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.s.

Radar Systems Engineer

Would you like to play a key role in the development and delivery of radar systems? We currently have a vacancy for a Radar Systems Engineer at our site in Cowes (Isle of Wight), Chelmsford, or Portsmouth (with travel to Cowes).

As a Radar Systems Engineer, you will be working within our Radar team, which is part of our wider Product & Training Services (P&TS) division. You will be primarily responsible for managing customer requirements, capturing system requirements and defining integration tests, along with tracing test coverage, monitoring test completeness and orchestrating the collation of test results at a system level. You will be responsible for the generation of customer acceptance packs across a diverse range of disciplines, including safety, security (incl. cyber), environmental and self-test.

This role will provide you with the chance to work with the latest engineering technology on projects of national importance. There will also be plenty of opportunity to develop into a Senior Engineer or System Design Authority position in the future.

Your main responsibilities as a Radar Systems Engineer will involve:

• Applying the systems engineering principles of ISO 15288 to support the design of systems through the entire engineering
• Working across a range of products and services, resolving common engineering problems
• Discerning and decompose requirements to system and sub-system level and managing these in an approved toolset such as IBM DOORS
• Undertaking system design and modelling to subsystem level including associated external and internal interfaces and managing such models in an approved toolset such as Cameo
• Helping to define and articulate acceptance strategies in order to verify requirement compliance at each appropriate level of system design
• Assisting with system integration, test planning and execution
• Assisting with technical reviews, verification and approval of engineering technical documentation and design in accordance with business, legislative and customer requirements
• Providing technical guidance to the immediate team
• Maintaining a good working knowledge of systems engineering practices including model- based engineering, digital threads, cyber security and safety procedures

Your skills and qualifications:

Essential:

• Qualification within a relevant STEM discipline
• Understanding of engineering principles and approaches underpinning design and development activities and be capable of systems thinking, applying holistic approaches to complex problems
• Demonstrates understanding, knowledge and experience in engineering
• Some familiarity with software languages

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Concept of requirements and configuration management
• Experience of working with large scale complex system designs
• Experience of some aspects of an engineering lifecycle and awareness of lifecycle models and associated tools
• Awareness of a high-level design methodology
• Knowledge of algorithmic development, analysis and implementation

What we are looking for in you:

You must be able to take accountability for the quality of your work and possess a proactive attitude to problem-solving. You must also have excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate technical information to others at various levels of seniority.

Location: Cowes (Isle of Wight), Chelmsford, or Portsmouth with travel to Cowes

Salary: up to £40,000

Benefits:

Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

BAE Systems:

BAE Systems is one of the world's leading global defence, security and aerospace companies. We work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we sometimes close our vacancies early. It is therefore advisable to apply as early as possible if you would like to be considered for a role with BAE Systems.

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