Systems Engineering Team Lead

Systems Engineering Team Lead

Callen-Lenz

Salisbury, United Kingdom

About the Role

You will lead a Systems Engineering team, splitting your time between leading the team and hands on engineering activities at a senior level. The split will continuously evolve depending on project and team requirements.

Reporting to and working with the Systems Engineering Manager you will deliver avionic systems engineering outputs as part of a wider systems engineering department, primarily by coordinating and supporting team members.

You will also be providing day-to-day line management of a team of systems engineers, supporting the Systems Engineering Manager with resource planning and project delivery.

A key element of this role will be delivering a strong technical output comprising all aspects of design, development and integration engineering associated with control, navigation, communication, payload, aircraft management, and C2 systems.

Role Responsibilities

• Performance management of individuals through the conduct of routine 1-2-1 meetings with a focus on SMART objectives/development needs;
• Provide support to team members including mentoring, encouraging pan-company collaboration and resolution of emergent issues;
• Management of employee related tasks via company tools such as Bamboo (Internal HR Systems), including approval of absence, mandatory training, etc.;
• Supporting the Systems Engineering Manager with recruitment – defining needs, reviewing applications, supporting interviews and onboarding of new staff;
• Working with and supporting other team leads across the organisation with cross project resourcing and rolling out change;
• Design, development and integration of avionics systems for unmanned air systems, including, control, navigation, communication, electrical, aircraft management and command & control (C2) systems;
• Integration of systems, including other air vehicle systems such as power plant, fuel systems and payloads;
• Assessment of system and subsystem failures and impacts to other systems;
• Support and enable flight test development activities, including field work;
• Generation and updates of configuration, maintenance and user documentation, for products and internal processes;
• Develop and maintain test facilities and tools;
• Guide and support other engineers across involved projects;
• Support manufacturing and build teams with engineering queries;
• Through close liaison and provision of updates to design, configuration and testing;
• Support project managers in a technical capacity, advising on resource and budget estimates;
• Perform other related duties as required.

About You

Qualifications

• A BSc or Masters Honours degree in an Engineering or Science subject.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to support the development and mentoring of other engineers;
• Demonstrable organisational and planning skills;
• Experience in designing, developing and testing complex electrical, electronic and/or software-based systems;
• Competent in practical integration tasks either using software or hardware-based rigs;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills;
• Report writing and information dissemination/presentation;
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Desirable

• Experience as a line manager;
• Design or systems engineering experience in UAS and associated systems;
• Experience with integration and/or use of UAS flight control systems;
• Experience in flying, or flight test, of UAS or RPAS;
• Familiarity with common engineering tools, for example DOORS, Solidworks, Python, MATLAB or equivalents;
• Demonstrable knowledge of systems engineering, preferably in aerospace;
• Configuration Management experience in an engineering environment.