Title:  Applications Systems Engineering Manager

Job Title – Applications Systems Engineering Manager

Job Location – Bristol, UK

Job ID – 24005

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 is our headquarters for our Maritime UK businesses which 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. We have additional Maritime UK sites across Burgess Hill, Barrow-In-Furness and Portchester. Together, we are powering the Royal Navy’s adoption of autonomous surface vehicle technology as well as delivering autonomous capability to UK ports, harbours and offshore energy service providers.

L3Harris in Portchester are the maritime industry’s autonomy partner of choice, we are powering the Royal Navy’s adoption of autonomous surface vehicle technology as well as delivering autonomous capability to UK ports, harbours and offshore energy service providers. We have delivered more than 100 autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) systems.

We’re looking for a sharp, strategic Systems Engineering Manager to lead and scale out growing team – drive innovation, streamline complexity and shape the future of our capabilities. You’ll bring proven leadership, deep systems engineering expertise, and hands-on experience delivering complex, cross-functional projects.

A few of our employee benefits are:
 

• Hybrid working where possible, three days onsite per week
• 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
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

Management:

• Ensure Applications Systems Engineering staff are enabled to execute their roles effectively and efficiently;
• Carry out annual performance reviews for staff;
• Carry out resource matrix management for Applications Systems Engineers deployed across multiple projects, manage demand across projects, review workforce planning and carry out recruitment activities to meet business needs;
• Support the development of Applications Systems Engineering capability within the company (process and tools);
• Monitor adherence to, and review training needs, with respect to corporate and local engineering processes;

• Work with programme Project Management to ensure delivery to cost and schedule;
• Report internally on technical aspects of Design Specification development;
• Interface with programme customer on technical aspects of Design Specification development.
• Requirements Engineering:
• Definition and management of subsystem level requirements;
• Management of Verification and Validation (V&V) evidence and understand the importance of traceability to customer requirements;
• Reviewing and communicating the impact of changes to the technical baseline;
• Support lower-level decomposition of requirements traceable to customer requirements;
• Produce/lead/review production of subsystem Design Specifications.

Engineering Process:

• Experienced in design and review processes;
• Experience of managing technical queries, risk and the engineering change management process;
• Collaborate with other business functions to produce and review engineering work packages and associated work breakdown structures;
• Support engineering initiatives to improve engineering quality and adherence to engineering process.

Other:

• Support design reviews and workshops to gain acceptance of the company designs from customer and project team stakeholders;
• To capture voids in designs and present these to stakeholders;
• Other ad hoc tasks as agreed with the line manager or work package lead;
• Provide technical representation for the company to customers and suppliers and deputise for the technical manager(s) on occasions, where appropriate.

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Equivalent of Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Post Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 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.
• Excellent planning, communications, and co-ordination skills;
• Excellent IT skills (Experience with DOORS is essential; System Architect or Rhapsody would be beneficial);
• Understands the characteristics of good quality requirements, elicitation methods and tools;
• Excellent understanding of development of Design Specifications;
• Good understanding of requirements engineering within Defence Projects;
• Good Knowledge of Marine Engineering or in Plant Processes and Control Systems;
• Good knowledge of Systems Design methodologies;
• Able to understand detail and a low level of fidelity in technical decision making.
• Good understanding of requirements engineering within Defence Projects – preferred

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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