Systems Proving Engineer

Overview

In this role you will plan, prepare and deliver system-level proving activities for a leading defence organisation. You will collaborate with systems and design engineering teams to ensure integrated, tested and validated systems. You will manage trials across laboratory, ground, harbour, sea and firing environments, analyse results and drive issue resolution. This is a hands-on, cross-functional position with exposure to international work, focused on ensuring safety, configuration control and robust system validation.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate system trials with systems and design engineering teams
• Develop trial plans, procedures and supporting technical documentation
• Capture trial data to support assessment and identify design issues
• Investigate and resolve technical issues from proving activities
• Prepare for and participate in Trials Readiness Reviews
• Analyse trial results and produce post-trial reports and findings
• Support various proving activities (lab functional tests, ground, harbour/sea, firing trials)
• Manage engineering laboratories including risk assessments, asset management, safety and audits
• Maintain hardware/software configuration control
• Collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, partners and external stakeholders

Key requirements

• British Citizen or Dual UK National with British citizenship
• Experience planning and executing system trials
• Familiarity with risk assessments and safety considerations in engineering labs
• Willingness to travel (UK and international) as required by programmes
• Desirable MBSE tools experience (DOORS, Rhapsody or RTC)
• Exposure to coding or scripting, particularly Python (beneficial but not essential)
• collaboration and teamwork across multidisciplinary teams
• strong communication with technical and management stakeholders
• problem-solving and data-driven thinking
• MBSE tools (DOORS, Rhapsody, RTC)
• system trials planning and execution
• data analysis and post-trial reporting

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