Job summary

Navigation and Timing Engineer - £79.16 p/h UMB - 12 month - Preston

Key skills required for this role

FCAS AP Mission Systems Position, Navigation and Timing Engineer, Systems engineering

Important

Navigation and Timing Engineer

Job description

Responsibilities:

Reporting to the PNT Lead as a technical expert, you will be responsible for identifying and assessing mission system solution options, technologies and philosophies and documenting and presenting the various trade-offs in cost, capability and maturity to inform concept selection and subsequent intial design activities. This includes:

* Identifying Mission System requirements for the PNT System

* Work alongside Procurement, acting as the PNT Supplier Manager

* Collaborate with suppliers, partners and technology providers to determine candidate solutions

* Assist in defining models of the solutions and their different emergent properties

* Provide onsite PNT domain knowledge, acting as an PNT SME

* Presenting an objective assessment of the merits of different PNT solutions

* Ability to work with external partners and customers

Skills:

Some experience of working in an agile environment

DV Security clearance

A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience

Experience/knowledge of the Product Management lifecycle, including Design and development of EW Systems. A basic knowledge of the Agile process is desirable.

Presentation Skills

Systems engineering methods and tools (e.g. UML/SysML, MoDAF, MOOD, Matlab)