What does the role look like?
We are actively seeking a Senior Systems & Performance Engineer to join our Wolverhampton-based team, contributing expertise to military and civil actuation projects.
This individual will play a key role in an integrated product team, leveraging their experience to autonomously plan and execute Systems & Performance Engineering work packages. Collaboration with the Principal Systems/Performance Engineer will enhance project delivery as needed.
Responsibilities include developing technical specifications and solutions for intricate actuation systems, involving requirements capture, architecture development, trade studies, requirements validation, design performance analysis, modeling, verification, and integration.
What will your day-to-day responsibilities look like?
- Understanding, interpreting, and clarifying customer and stakeholder requirements.
- Establishing system architecture and developing interface definitions.
- Managing requirements and creating specifications for internal and external suppliers.
- Utilizing computer modelling and simulation for actuation systems, encompassing hydro-mechanical and electro-mechanical systems.
- Supporting product design and development through static and dynamic analysis, including sizing, sensitivity, and robustness analysis, as well as control law development.
- Conducting trade-off analysis to identify optimized solutions.
- Producing project deliverables, such as Performance Analysis reports, Requirements Management Plans, System Description Documents, Verification Summaries, and Compliance Reports.
- Generating and tracking progress on requirements validation, traceability, and verification matrices/summaries.
- Analysing customer requirements for compliance.
- Identifying and addressing technical risks and implementing risk mitigation throughout the program's lifecycle.
- Contributing to the development of standard work and best practices within the function.
