Essential
Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline.
Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution.
Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or demonstrable route toward chartership (desirable depending on project needs).
️ Essential Experience
- ️ Significant experience in an engineering design environment where systems thinking and integration are key attributes.
Demonstrable experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering coordination activities.
Experience defining, capturing, and managing project-level requirements, including functional and derived requirements.
️ Experience facilitating structured requirements and value management workshops.
Experience ensuring traceability between requirements, design outputs, and verification strategy.
Experience supporting technical optioneering and structured decision-making processes.
- ️ Experience identifying and managing cross-discipline technical risks and interface risks.
Experience developing and maintaining systems-level documentation (e.g., requirement specifications, system architectures, interface control documents).
️ Experience working within regulated or safety-critical environments.
Strong stakeholder management capability and ability to build technical consensus.
Desirable
Systems Engineering accreditation (e.g., INCOSE ASEP/CSEP or equivalent).
Formal training in requirements management and verification & validation methodologies.
Postgraduate qualification in systems engineering or a related discipline (advantageous).
Desirable Experience
- ️ Experience operating in a nuclear or highly regulated environment.
Experience across multiple lifecycle phases (Appraise, Define, Deliver).
- ️ Experience supporting hazard identification and ensuring hazards are appropriately addressed within system design.
✅ Experience defining verification and validation strategies proportionate to risk and lifecycle phase.
Familiarity with Sellafield governance processes and gated lifecycle.
Experience working with systems engineering methodologies and tools.