Engineering Consultant

Your experience of Systems Engineering and ability to partition systems for analysis, along with an interest in Strategic Obsolescence Management and the Defence market will be ideal for this Engineering Consultant role .
 
The role is for the leading independent centre of engineering design, design support, app development and technical services for defence and security customers.  The position can be  flexible on location either in Bath, Fareham, Plymouth, Glasgow, or Weymouth with a fair amount of remote working. 
About the job:    
In support of our continuing growth, we are seeking consultants (from junior to senior grades) to support our activities in Strategic Obsolescence Management primarily for the Defence sector.
As an engineering consultant you will conduct systems analysis to assess platform obsolescence risk, prioritise mitigation activities and estimate the cost and schedule for design changes to produce long-term plans for effective revisions to complex system designs. You will also support designers to minimise the opportunity for obsolescence risks to occur and increase the systems’ sustainability and resilience. You will also have the opportunity to provide technical leadership to the delivery of obsolescence management tasks, support the development of strategies, processes, and good practices, and work with customers to understand their needs, and to tailor services to deliver real value to them.          
About you: 
The person we are looking for will not need to have undertaken the specific role before. You will have System Engineering experience coupled with an ability to approach whole system problems using architectural hierarchy as a structured way to partition systems for analysis. You will also understand a broad range of technical topics and be able to intelligently elicit information from subject matter experts and stakeholders.
You will be self-motivated and have a natural ability to invite trust from clients to draw out their true needs and aspirations. You will also have the skills to support the implementation of strategies and good practices at a project or Enterprise level that challenges how things are done and entrenched cultural attitudes.
You will have a fundamental understanding of what makes an organisation tick.
For a senior role you will have had exposure to clients operating with financial constraints, procurement strategies, and engineering design practices and life cycles including change management, inventory and configuration management, and process tailoring, within a defence environment.
 
Engineering Consultant
Bath, Fareham, Plymouth, Glasgow, or Weymouth (or Remote)
Permanent role – Salary negotiable
        
Keywords: Systems Engineer, Obsolescence, Requirements, DOORS, Integration, Technical assurance, Platform design, Design, Support, Acquisition, V model, Verification, Validation, CADMID, Archimate, UML, SysML, MoDAF, TOGAF
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.        
        
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.       
        
This is a permanent position