Lead Engineer (Maritime Acoustics) - £375+

- Lead Engineer (Maritime Acoustics) - 12 Months - £375p/d - Portsdown/Farnborough - Engineer, Acoustics, System Engineer, SC
- Must BE UK SC CLEARED.

Overall Purpose of the Job
The purpose of this role is to provide the Acoustics System and hardware expertise and technical lead on equipment being upgraded; which is deployed to XXXX Test & Evaluation Range operators.

Context:
The (XXXX) exists to provide XXXXX with Test & Evaluation Range capabilities in the UK. XXXXX maintains the capability and initiates new projects, as required, to address obsolescence in the equipment and development of new or enhanced capability.

The organisation undertakes specification, design, development, procurement, integration and acceptance of equipment that form part of the Maritime Test
- Specific responsibilities and challenges:
- Leading the project technical and engineering activities in accordance with the agreed schedule, authorised base cost and the XXXXX/Divisional procedures;
- Building strong working relationships with end-users, subject matter experts and suppliers;
- Supporting the development and presentation of clear and compelling customer proposals;
- Eliciting, developing and managing requirements at user and system level;
- Developing and owning the architectures and designs to meet the agreed requirements and flowing them down to implementation;
- Providing engineering management and leadership, at the appropriate level, during the production and/manufacturing stages of development. Ensuring that the subsystem/components are produced to the required specification;
- Specifying and leading sub-system, system and user acceptance testing and supporting transition into service;
- Acting as the Design Authority for the equipment or system affected by the project;
- Supporting project design reviews at appropriate points in the life cycle against which to confirm the maturity of the project;
- Reporting, as directed, on the status of the project in an open and honest manner
- ROLE DIMENSIONS (Finance/budgets; non-financial eg staff; workload, customers, accounts):
- Lead, develop and manage assigned technical and engineering staff;
- Undertaking activities to the required quality within the defined time and cost constraints;
- Successful outcomes of this role:
- Safe delivery of projects to pre-determined time, quality/scope and cost;
- Satisfied customers and stakeholders that include XXXXXs XXXX Project Team, Range operators (end-users) and XXXXX representatives

PERSON SPECIFICATION

- Essential Education, Qualifications and Training
- Degree in engineering, computer science or a pure science or equivalent qualifications or experience;
- SC cleared.
- Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
- Experienced Acoustic systems engineer with a hardware background
- Recent experience of architectural design, sub-system design and specification, cost estimating, implementation, text and acceptance of Acoustic type equipment
- Ability and willingness to be hands-on with system engineering tasks as part of the project (ie produce requirements, high level design and test specifications), especially in smaller or less complex projects;
- Ability to decompose complex issues to an appropriate level of detail, in a methodical manner;
- Ability to act as the System Design Authority for a project/equipment;
- Appreciation of diverse technologies;

ESSENTIAL PERSONAL QUALITIES AND BEHAVIOURAL REQUIREMENTS

- Drive and determination to achieve successful project delivery;
- Present a proactive and dynamic professional attitude to internal and external customers;
- Pragmatic: able to work within defined constraints;

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

- Knowledge of Test
- Previous experience of delivering complex Acoustic Projects for the UK XXXXX.

LOCATION

The role will be based at Portsdown (as the preferred site) or Farnborough.

This is an ongoing project and therefore even if you are in a contract please forward your details.

Contact Details

Contact Name: Neil Brand

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