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Role: Senior Systems Engineer / Consultant

Location: Candidates can be based at either of the below sites on a hybrid basis – 3 days per week site/office presence as a minimum.

• Birchwood, Warrington WA3 6XG
• West Burton Power Station, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 9BL
• Milton Park, Oxfordshire OX14 4RY

Salary: Up to £58,000 DOE

There has never been a more exciting time to join NUVIA UK. As a result of significant growth and major contract awards, including the STEP fusion programme and major frameworks supporting the UK's defence and nuclear infrastructure, we are expanding our capability and delivering some of the UK's most innovative and strategically important programmes. Operating across the nuclear, defence and energy sectors, our work supports critical national infrastructure, strengthens energy security and contributes to the UK's long-term resilience.

Purpose of the job

As a senior member of the Consultancy Team, you will provide systems engineering leadership and technical direction across multidisciplinary projects, supporting the successful development, integration and delivery of complex engineering solutions.

You will join Nuvia’s Systems Engineering consultancy team and work could take the form of secondment to Nuvia’s customers or support to internal EPC projects.

Reports to
Systems Engineering Manager or Principal Systems Engineer

The role may also report functionally or operationally to an Engineering Manager or Project Manager while deployed on a project or customer assignment.

Responsibilities

Systems Engineering Delivery

•  Lead and deliver systems engineering activities within defined projects, systems or workstreams, operating independently in familiar scenarios and seeking advice for exceptional, highly complex or novel situations.
• Apply and tailor proportionate systems engineering approaches, plans and processes within delegated authority, appropriate to project complexity, risk and lifecycle stage.
• Systems engineering advice and support to customers, project teams and engineering disciplines.
• Apply effective systems thinking, problem solving and systems engineering practice to analysis and decision making.

Requirements, Architecture and Integration

• Lead the definition and management of stakeholder needs, requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead the development and management of system, functional and physical architectures.
• Lead the identification, definition and management of internal and external interfaces within assigned scope.
• Lead technical integration across systems, engineering disciplines, suppliers and lifecycle stages.
• Ensure appropriate planning and management of verification, validation and requirements compliance.

Technical Governance and Assurance

• Produce and check systems engineering deliverables within delegated authority

• Contribute to and, where appropriate, lead technical, design, assurance and safety reviews within assigned scope.

• Systems engineering information is appropriately controlled, traceable and maintained through the engineering lifecycle.

• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, dependencies and engineering decisions within assigned responsibilities.

• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, standards, customer requirements and company arrangements.

Project and Commercial Delivery

• Own, plan and deliver defined systems engineering scopes of work, deliverables and technical inputs.

• Manage assigned systems engineering activities against agreed quality, cost and programme requirements.

• Coordinate and technically manage defined systems engineering activities undertaken by suppliers and subcontractors.

• Support tenders through provision of technical inputs, estimates, risks and plans.

People and Capability Development

• Mentor Systems Engineers and provide technical direction within assigned areas of responsibility

• Support recruitment and technical assessment activities where required.

• Contribute to systems engineering capability improvement through processes, methods, tools, guidance and lessons learned.

• Promote culture of safety, collaboration, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Mandatory

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience in a relevant engineering or technical discipline
• Experience applying systems engineering independently and leading defined workstreams within complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience of highly regulated environments, preferably nuclear, defence, major infrastructure.
• Experience using requirements and engineering lifecycle management database software tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to work independently with customers and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to engage independently with customers and multidisciplinary technical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of assurance, configuration management, safety, risk, change and governance.
• Commercial awareness, including technical scope, cost, schedule and supplier management.

Desirable

• Experience using MBSE tools such as Capella, Cameo or equivalent.
• INCOSE CSEP or equivalent systems engineering professional certification.
• Chartered Engineer, or working towards an appropriate professional qualification.
• Experience of engineering consultancy or customer secondment.
• Full UK driving licence.