Associate Systems Engineer

Introduction:

Saab UK is part of Scandinavia’s largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.

What you will be part of:

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe.

Empowered by its 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems.

Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.

The Role:

This role is part of our Saab Seaeye business unit in Fareham.

As part of the Systems Engineering team, you will develop, maintain, and manage SysML models for product systems, ensuring customer requirements are captured, decomposed, validated, and fully traced throughout the project lifecycle

The requirements will vary from customer-customisation of existing products through to R&D projects for underwater robotics platforms, tooling and equipment. Using your engineering skills and systems engineering knowledge to bridge mechanical, electrical, electronic and software domains to deliver complex products, which meet the customers expectations on-time and on-budget.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate customer needs into engineering system solutions via the use of Requirements Capture, Use-Cases and Systems architecture design
• Develop and maintain SysML models representing system structure, behaviour, interfaces and requirements within requirements management toolset
• Ensure completed requirements traceability from capture to verification
• Administer system engineering databases and repositories
• Maintain the systems architecture design across complex multi-disciplinary product development teams
• Provide cradle-to-grave systems support throughout the entire project lifecycle: from definition and design through to testing and delivery
• To proactively manage change throughout the development lifecycle
• Design and development of robust system architectures, which encompass electrical, mechanical and software interfaces and interactions.
• Use Model Based Systems engineering (MBSE) to create and maintain operational, logical and function architectures

Qualifications and skills:

Essential:

• Degree or similar in engineering discipline
• >2 years’ experience in system related role
• Knowledge of system engineering principles and requirements capture
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal
• Good attention to detail

Desirable:

• UML/SysML design methodologies
• Experience of black-box system design and interface control methodologies and toolchains
• Experience of requirements management including validation & verification processes

Saab UK Company Benefits:

• 30 days annual leave
• Workplace pension scheme with 8% company contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Group income protection scheme
• Death in service insurance
• Up to 5% share matching scheme
• Company enhanced Maternity/Adoption & Paternity leave.
• + Much more

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.