Job Title – Systems Engineering Manager

Job Location – Farnborough, UK

Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours considered and hybrid working where possible.

Job ID – 11825

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Farnborough specialist in secure ground and airborne communication and network systems for the US military, international forces and commercial customers.

The Engineering Team comprises system, software, hardware, mechanical and test engineering disciplines.

The successful candidate will be able to contribute to the company’s success by providing systems engineering expertise for product and systems development programmes. There will be daily interaction with other engineers and frequent contact with team members from within the company, partner organisations, customers and suppliers. This is a customer facing role and frequent customer interaction is expected.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Hybrid working where possible

• Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours available, i.e., 9-day fortnight

• 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

  What the role will involve

  The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Understand, analyse and assess customers’ needs and requirements.

• Document and present solutions to technical and non-technical audiences through technical specifications, white papers and presentations.

• Chair Design Reviews and Technical Working Groups at all stages of the engineering lifecycle.

• Produce and review technical proposals, specifications and design documentation.

• Produce and maintain delivery plans, governance structures, policies and procedures to support system and product development and deliveries.

• Identify and propose research and study activities to introduce new/updated technologies and solutions. Review the outcomes to understand customer benefits.

• Line management of 4 to 8 direct reports who are typically experienced professional engineers.

• Technical management of project teams comprising software, electronics, integration and test engineers.

  What you’ll bring

  The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree and minimum of 9 years prior relevant experience.

• Detailed knowledge and experience of secure communications systems and networking preferably in a deployed environment.

• Experience and knowledge of engineering lifecycles.

• Experience and knowledge of embedded system design preferably with an electronics background.

• Experience of writing technical specifications, reports and presentations.

  Preferred Additional Skills:

• Knowledge and experience of requirements management and associated tools.

• Knowledge of RF systems, products and ancillaries. Including product design and system solutions.

• An understanding of security architectures, information assurance and product security.

• A background in embedded electronics and understanding of embedded software.

• Knowledge and experience of Model Based System Engineering, Model Based Design, SysML, UML or similar, associated tools and methodologies.

• Understanding of Design Certification and product safety processes.

  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.

  As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

  We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.