Senior Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom Babcock International Group Full time

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: UK
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team. As a Requirements Manager, you will be responsible for leading requirements activities within your area of the programme / project.

The Role
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will have a role that's out of the ordinary. A senior‐level professional role in the Systems discipline of the Engineering role family. This role requires in depth knowledge, expertise and multiple years
experience of professional practice within this discipline. You'll be expected to provide Requirements and V&V (Verification & Validation) so, a proven track record of doing so is key.

Day-to-day, you'll be undertaking complex and non‐routine professional assignments with minimal supervision and may provide leadership to more junior roles within the Systems discipline. Systems is a role discipline which uses a transdisciplinary and integrative approach to enable the successful realisation, use, support and retirement of engineered systems, using systems principles and concepts, and scientific, technological, and management methods:

  • Leading requirements activities within their area of the programme / project.
  • Working with EMs, design team, deriving / managing system and sub-system requirements.
  • Managing traceability activities and documentation.
  • Leading V&V, Test and Acceptance activities.
  • Willingness to solve complex problems by taking initiative.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to one of our sites on a monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential Experience of the Senior Systems Engineer:

  • Demonstratable experience within systems engineering.
  • In‐depth knowledge and experience of systems engineering in order to solve complex problems with minimal guidance.
  • Background of working in a regulated industry.
  • Key principles to demonstrate: Be Curious, Think: Outcomes, Collaborate, Be Kind.

Qualifications for the Senior Systems Engineer:

  • You must be degree / HNC qualified or equivalent / similar.
  • Ideally, you'll be a chartered engineer or, working towards chartership.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at .

What we Offer:

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
  • Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
  • Autonomy to perform the role.
  • Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, is committed to delivering safe and secure solutions for our customers. We are proud to be a part of the Babcock International Group, a leading provider of critical support services to the UK nuclear industry.



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