Systems Engineer Level 4

NATS is the UK's leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights each year. It provides air traffic control services from two control centres supporting airports all around the UK, as well as a wide range of commercial solutions to over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

This role can be performed from Whiteley, Prestick or Swanwick.

Job Purpose/Overview
For the assigned domain be responsible to the System Engineering Manager for the successful completion of the following tasks.

Other duties Include

• Provide systems engineering support for commercial projects, to ensure the right engineering solution is delivered, whilst ensuring delivery to schedule and budget constraints
• Co-ordinate with system designers, system engineering managers, project managers and customers to agree requirements, timescales and project plans to ensure successful delivery
• Define, direct and support all systems engineering activities on the programme
• Lead the elicitation of customer requirements for system changes
• Provide system engineering support for the design and development of NATS services, ensuring that operational functionality and serviceability requirements are maintained
• Ensuring the design and subsequent development of the system meets the needs of project work packages as well as the integrity and reliability standards applicable in NATS
• Acting as the focal point for project queries and manage resultant documentation for change requests and problem reports arising from the design, implementation, and subsequent testing
• Support the Systems Engineering Manager (SEM) to develop the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) to ensure clear and concise guidance for successful project delivery
• Support the SEM and commercial team to manage, facilitate and lead commercial project triage reviews
• Support the SEM to define, develop and execute commercial projects and associated processes covering reporting, risk management and cost optimisation
• Ensure that all engineering related issues are resolved in a timely manner and that all engineering risks are identified and managed through the appropriate risk management process
• Ensure the necessary safety and qualification assurance plans and evidence are in place and coherent
• Plan and agree work package deliverables and timescales to achieve assigned project objectives.
• Support the development of engineering solutions across the systems engineering lifecycle, including design definition, verification and validation and acceptance

Essential Skills and Experience

• The applicant is expected to hold, as a minimum, an HNC (or an equivalent qualification) in an Engineering related discipline and have relevant engineering experience
• Relevant experience of high-integrity real-time systems within large scale, multi-disciplined projects and practical experience of systems engineering testing and integration, with broad experience of one or more NATS systems and general knowledge of NATS ATM Architecture

Additional Vacancy Information
We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally - for more information on what NATS can offer you please visit - Why NATS? - NATS

We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. We also welcome discussions on flexible and part-time working arrangements. Find out more here

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe - we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry