Job Description

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.

• 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.

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.