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Job Title – ApplicationsSystems Engineer

Job Location – Bristol, UK

Job ID – 22401

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Bristol/Burgess Hill/Barrow provides warship automation systems through control and simulation solutions that are in service on Albion Class Landing Platform Docks and Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers. More systems are being developed and delivered for Type 26 and Type 31 Frigates.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Hybrid working where possible – please note, the business expectation is to be onsite 60% over a one-month period.
• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Working on all aspects of the Platform Management System (PMS): a system to monitor, control and automate major subsystems for marine platforms.
• Ensuring Configurable Software Components (CSC), are developed to a high standard using the companies Engineering Management Plan, processes and procedures.
• Produce and maintain high quality documentation throughout the CSC development lifecycle, ensuring full traceability of the customer requirements through Functional Design Specification to Software Design.
• Engage with the customer through the requirements definition, reviews and technical queries throughout the CSC development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across different engineering functions to develop functional requirements and conceptualise Human Computer Interface (HCI) Pages.
• Participate in reviews of Functional Design Specifications, HCI Page Reviews, Software Design and Test Documents.

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Equivalent of Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience; or Post graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience working on complex engineering projects.
• Excellent understanding of systems concepts, context, boundaries, interfaces, system hierarchy and the principles of system partitioning in order to help manage complexity.
• Understands the characteristics of good quality requirements, elicitation methods and tools;
• Experience of a requirements management toolset (ideally DOORS)
• Broad knowledge of Systems Design methodologies
• Able to understand detail and a low level of fidelity in technical decision making
• Experience of utilising MBSE and use of System Architect or Rhapsody would be beneficial;
• To “fill gaps" in the engineering team by quickly understanding wider engineering areas (outside of specialism) to support design and understand engineering strategies - EMC, Safety, ILS, etc.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.  

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