NUVIA UK - Senior Systems Engineer / Consultant

Join NUVIA UK, a leading company in the nuclear, defense, and energy sectors. As a Senior Systems Engineer/Consultant, you will provide systems engineering leadership and technical direction across multidisciplinary projects. You will work on innovative and strategically important programs that support critical national infrastructure and contribute to the UK's long-term resilience. The role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work in a hybrid model from various locations in the UK.

Lead and deliver systems engineering activities within defined projects, systems or workstreams, operating independently in familiar scenarios and seeking advice for exceptional, highly complex or novel situations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and management of stakeholder needs, requirements and acceptance criteria, and the development and management of system, functional and physical architectures.
• Own, plan and deliver defined systems engineering scopes of work, deliverables and technical inputs, and manage assigned systems engineering activities against agreed quality, cost and programme requirements.

Systems Engineering Delivery

• Lead and deliver systems engineering activities within defined projects, systems or workstreams, operating independently in familiar scenarios and seeking advice for exceptional, highly complex or novel situations.
• Apply and tailor proportionate systems engineering approaches, plans and processes within delegated authority, appropriate to project complexity, risk and lifecycle stage.
• Systems engineering advice and support to customers, project teams and engineering disciplines.
• Apply effective systems thinking, problem solving and systems engineering practice to analysis and decision making.

Requirements, Architecture and Integration

• Lead the definition and management of stakeholder needs, requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead the development and management of system, functional and physical architectures.
• Lead the identification, definition and management of internal and external interfaces within assigned scope.
• Lead technical integration across systems, engineering disciplines, suppliers and lifecycle stages.
• Ensure appropriate planning and management of verification, validation and requirements compliance.

Technical Governance and Assurance

• Produce and check systems engineering deliverables within delegated authority
• Contribute to and, where appropriate, lead technical, design, assurance and safety reviews within assigned scope.
• Systems engineering information is appropriately controlled, traceable and maintained through the engineering lifecycle.
• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, dependencies and engineering decisions within assigned responsibilities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, standards, customer requirements and company arrangements.

Project and Commercial Delivery

• Own, plan and deliver defined systems engineering scopes of work, deliverables and technical inputs.
• Manage assigned systems engineering activities against agreed quality, cost and programme requirements.
• Coordinate and technically manage defined systems engineering activities undertaken by suppliers and subcontractors.
• Support tenders through provision of technical inputs, estimates, risks and plans.
• Mentor Systems Engineers and provide technical direction within assigned areas of responsibility
• Support recruitment and technical assessment activities where required.
• Contribute to systems engineering capability improvement through processes, methods, tools, guidance and lessons learned.
• Promote culture of safety, collaboration, technical excellence and continuous improvement.