NUVIA UK - Principal Systems Engineer / Consultant

Join NUVIA UK as a Principal Systems Engineer/Consultant, where you will provide systems engineering leadership and technical direction across multidisciplinary projects. You will be based at one of our hybrid locations and will play a key role in the successful development, integration, and delivery of complex engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for systems engineering activities and team members across projects, programmes and customer assignments.
• Lead the definition and management of stakeholder needs, requirements and acceptance criteria, and the development and management of system, functional and physical architectures.
• Define systems engineering scopes of work, deliverables, resource requirements and technical inputs, and ensure systems engineering activities are delivered to the required quality, cost and programme.

Systems Engineering Leadership

• Provide technical leadership for systems engineering activities and team members across projects, programmes and customer assignments.
• Define and tailor proportionate systems engineering approaches, plans, processes and governance to suit project complexity, risk and lifecycle stage.
• Authoritative systems engineering advice and challenge to customers, project teams and engineering leadership.
• Promote effective systems thinking, problem solving and the consistent application of systems engineering practice for 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.
• Ensure effective identification, definition and management of internal and external interfaces.
• 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

• Assurance of systems engineering activities and deliverables, including checking and approval
• Lead and contribute to technical, design, assurance and safety reviews.
• Systems engineering information is appropriately controlled, traceable and maintained through the engineering lifecycle.
• Ensure technical risks, assumptions, dependencies and significant engineering decisions are identified and appropriately managed.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, standards, customer requirements and company arrangements.

Project and Commercial Delivery

• Define systems engineering scopes of work, deliverables, resource requirements and technical inputs.
• Ensure systems engineering activities are delivered to the required quality, cost and programme.
• Manage and oversee systems engineering activities undertaken by suppliers and subcontractors.
• Support tenders through development of technical approaches, scope, estimates, risks and plans.
• Lead, mentor and professionally develop Systems Engineers providing technical direction
• Support recruitment and assessment of systems engineering personnel.
• Promote culture of safety, collaboration, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Develop organisational systems engineering capability through improved processes, methods, tools, guidance, training and lessons learned.