Integration And System Validation Engineer

World Class Defence Organisation is currently looking to recruit 2x Integration and System Validation Engineer subcontractors on an initial 12 month contract.    

The role would suit a candidate with the below experience:

• Network systems and protocols, experience of switch and router configuration and management
• Fault finding and route cause analysis at subsystem integration level
• Doors/ETM would be desirable

Rate: £70.00 per hour
Location: Bristol
Hybrid / Remote working: 3-5 days on site; rest remote; lab-based position
Contract: 37 Hours per week
Overtime: Hours worked over 37 hours per week will be calculated at ‘time and a quarter’
Duration: 12 Months (initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter)
IR35 status: Inside IR35 (Umbrella)                                                                                                                                          
Interview Process: One stage Video Interview

Integration and System Validation Engineer Job Description:

We are looking for a Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer to join the Integration and Systems Validation team on the Land Ceptor project. The project provides an opportunity with work with a variety of customers and industry partners in the UK and on export contracts.
 
We are looking for a broad-based Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer who will be able to:

• 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.

This role will provide potential opportunities to travel abroad, as well as a great opportunity to work in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment with guaranteed diverse work.
 
Skillset/experience required:

We are looking for an engineer with the following skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills;
• 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.