Warhead Systems Engineer

2 weeks ago


Berkshire, United Kingdom AWE PLC Full time

This is a great opportunity to work with a diverse team of people with an important mission to deliver. The role comes with excellent benefits including every other Friday off work

**Warhead Systems Engineer**

This is an ideal role for those just starting out in their career and is within a specialist area so opportunities for relevant training and development will be provided. We are proud to have such a friendly and supportive group for you to join and offerexcellent development opportunities for our staff to progress within the team.

**Location**: Reading / Basingstoke Area (**role is office based**)

**Salary**: £26,500 - £31,500 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

**AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include**:

- Generous holiday entitlement 270 hours a year (inclusive of Bank Holidays)**plus every other Friday off**:

- Flexible working hours
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
- Market leading contributory pension scheme
- AWE Life Insurance
- Salary sacrifice benefits scheme
- Financial support and time allowance for further education

**What you would be responsible for**:

- Supporting stakeholder engagement activities to collaborate with other areas of the business, the customer, government agencies (international and domestic) and regulators to support multiple Warhead Engineering projects
- Supporting the development and use of tools and techniques to conduct domain specific analysis and assessments from system to component level
- Supporting Subject Matter Experts to help influence the system design and solution, working alongside multiple engineering and scientific disciplines
- Supporting activities to influence, capture and translate stakeholder vision into system and sub-system requirements
- Supporting the development of Concept of Operations and system architectures (functional and physical)
- Supporting the generation and management of Validation & Verification evidence
- Producing high quality technical reports, presentations and project artefacts as required by company Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process and project delivery
- Developing your own expertise in the area

**This role requires someone with**:

- Strong communication and soft skills to work with people and teams to both discover and share key information
- Innovative systems thinking approach
- Good analytical and decision-making skills
- Flexibility and adaptability to embrace the variety of activities which are part of the role
- Ability to manage and deliver objectives on time to high quality

Occasional travel to the USA for partnering opportunities may be required.

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