Principal Systems Engineer

Job Description

The Opportunity

At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our team within the Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3) line of business. The CS3 line of business operates across the UK, providing innovative and invaluable support solutions to our customers. We help to ensure the availability of front-line capability wherever and whenever required.

This role will be part of the Through-Life Services (TLS) team as part of Team Tempest – working on the next-generation combat aircraft, operating at the cutting edge of technological innovation and securing the UK's position as a global leader in combat air. We are looking for someone who thrives when working in the problem space, is good at drawing out and understanding stakeholder needs, as well as looking at different concepts for creating optimal value solutions for both the customer and the business.

TLS consists of everything needed to keep the systems operating effectively throughout their life, and aims to develop a more capable, cost effective and sustainable solution, seeking to influence the early design of the equipment as well as provide the through-life solution framework. This includes all of the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), solution management, continuous improvement, equipment upgrades, spares, repairs, training, supportability, failure prediction, equipment health status monitoring, support solution architecture, knowledge and information management. These future solutions are expected to be highly dependent on information systems, use of synthetics and digital analytics, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

In this role you will work closely with both the internal Leonardo teams and with external stakeholders, including our national industry partners and the MoD, giving you the opportunity to influence and optimise the holistic solution.

What You’ll Do As a Principal Systems Engineer

• Supporting the identification of a complete set of stakeholders for the through life services element of the programme, and supporting the creation of a stakeholder engagement and communication strategy.
• Establishing and maturing stakeholder needs, associating/attributing priority, interest, influence and trading-off needs to determine optimum capability to solve stakeholders’ problems
• Supporting the determination of a solution strategy, including brownfield or greenfield methodologies. Identifying and exploiting existing Leonardo services and solutions in order to ensure existing technology, processes, and subject matter expertise is re-used.
• Supporting the creation of the concepts and architecture for the through life support solution, taking input from the product design teams, as well as the functional subject matter experts (including supportability, obsolescence, data)
• Carrying out system functional analysis, modelling and architecture development / refinement as required
• Supporting the identification and establishment of Use Cases to perform Functional Analysis to help define the logical architecture of the solution.
• Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure architecture alignment with other elements of the programme.
• Ensuring the application of appropriate tools / techniques for problem definition by the team
• Escalating emerging issues and levels of risk and helping define opportunities and risk mitigation options
• Using the output of Operational Analysis (OA) to improve the solution design / requirements
• Coordinating multi-stakeholder analysis into reports and presentations for delivery to customers and industry partners
• Fostering relationships and networks within and outside the line of business and actively identifying opportunities for adoption of best practice
• Developing, coaching, mentoring, teaching, and upskilling other engineers, particularly in the problem definition domain, but also in the wider application of systems engineering.
  
  

We would like to hear from you if you have a combination of the following

• Experience in capturing and analysing Stakeholder needs to help guide the development of service solutions capable of meeting the needs of future operational environments.
• Experience in adoption of MBSE approach to develop service and product system architectures in response to Stakeholder needs and requirements.
• Experience in generation of Use Cases and performing of Functional Analysis for requirements refinement.
• Experience in management of requirements traceability.
• Experience and understanding of the engineering lifecycle, and how decisions made in the early lifecycle affect the later stages
• Ability to balance competing needs using a range of methods such as trade studies.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with an ability to influence and adapt according to changing demands.
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders from a wide range of organisations, disciplines, backgrounds and levels of seniority.
• Ability to maintain engineering and problem definition best practice, including looking externally to sources such as academia or other industries
• Ability to explore and capture the problem domain without solution domain bias
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop others
• Appreciation of how a system fits within the broader capability enterprise, for example as a component of a system-of-systems solution and wider dependencies such as personnel and infrastructure
• Self-motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and driving difficult issues to conclusion
  
  

Intrinsic Factors

• This role could be based on any of our UK sites, with the ability to use Custom (Hybrid) working to balance on and off-site working
• As CS3 is a geographically dispersed line of business, the role is likely to include travel within the UK, and potentially abroad, to support team and customer meetings. In some cases you will also be expected to stay overnight as part of this travel
  
  

Security Clearance

You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit https //www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

Life at Leonardo

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

• Flexible Working Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us
• Company funded flexible benefits Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
• Holidays 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
• Pension Award winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution)
• Wellbeing Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers)
• Lifestyle Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
• Training Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera
• Referral Incentive You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member
• Bonus Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below
  
  

For a full list of our Company benefits please visit our website.

Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 8,000 are based at 8 sites throughout the UK.

At Leonardo UK, we believe that a diverse and inclusive work environment unlocks our people’s full potential and drives innovation and creativity. We work hard to offer a welcoming, accessible and inclusive place to work for all of our people, creating a culture where everyone can thrive, feel safe and have a sense of belonging and connection.

This is a great opportunity to bring your talents and form an integral part of Leonardo’s future. We can help you develop your skills and offer great opportunities to develop and grow, so why not join us.

Primary Location

GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

Additional Locations

GB - Basildon, GB - Bristol Building, GB - Edinburgh, GB - Newcastle, GB - Southampton

Contract Type

Hybrid Working

Hybrid