Engineered to Protect, that’s our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. Functional leadership of the Systems Engineering discipline, ensuring SEA has the people, methods, tools and governance needed to deliver coherent system architectures, robust requirements, effective technical assurance, and disciplined lifecycle execution across products and projects.
Head of Discipline - Systems Engineering will be based at either our Bristol, Beckington or Barnstaple site with regular travel to all 3. This role allows for flexible working.
The salary for this role is up to £90k, depending on experience.
What you’ll be doing
- Own requirements management practice and traceability
- Define and maintaining system architecture approaches
- Ensure integration, verification and validation planning is robust
- Support technical risk reduction and trade-off decisions
- Ensure alignment with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 and relevant defence lifecycle expectations
- Provide assurance at key lifecycle gates and technical reviews
- Own Systems Engineering standards, processes, methods, and tools
- Ensure engineers are suitably trained, competent, and deployed
- Provide technically capable resources to projects and products
- Maintain discipline compliance with AS9100, ISO 15288 and relevant defence lifecycle requirements
- Drive continuous improvement within the discipline
- Participate in technical reviews, audits, and governance as required
- Support Engineering Leads with subject matter leadership and challenge
About our company
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.
We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we’re always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance
- Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Half day Fridays
- Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing
- Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
- Health Cash Plan
- All Staff Bonus
- Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing Centre
- Sports & Social activities
- Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
- Life assurance policy
- Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
- Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources
- Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
- Private seated lunch areas
- Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
- Onsite showers and toiletries provision
- Free onsite parking
The skills you need
- A STEM degree and/or equivalent relevant engineering professional qualifications
- Engineering leadership experience within a business operating within the UK defence/security/Automotive/Aerospace industry
- Direct experience of leading a varied engineering function of at least 25 engineers.
- Lifecycle delivery of complex systems
- Requirements management tools and methods, e.g. DOORS NG or equivalent
- System architecture and interface management
- Integration, verification, validation and acceptance
- Engineering governance in regulated/safety-conscious environments
- Deep technical expertise and professional credibility
- Strong people leadership and coaching capability
- Objective, consistent, and fair decision maker
- Comfortable balancing functional priorities with project needs
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you’d like to know more, please give Kelly Thomas from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on 03330 414300. Or reach out to us on [email protected]
