System Engineer

Join the expanding Sea Ceptor Weapon Systems team and play a pivotal role in delivering verification activities across multiple customers, including both domestic and export programmes. Sea Ceptor is a high-profile, innovative maritime air defence system, and this role provides exposure to formal verification, certification processes, and multi-programme delivery.

Reporting to the Weapon Systems Design & Verification team, you will manage tasks, budgets, and activities to ensure all verification and validation work is completed to time, cost, and quality. You will also contribute to the generation of system compliance evidence, review subsystem outputs, support documentation creation, and maintain certification and modification registers., * Deliver verification and validation activities across multiple programmes, managing tasks to meet deadlines and quality standards

• Review subsystem outputs and evidence to enable system-level activities
• Generate and maintain verification and certification documentation, including compliance matrices and product trials certificates
• Manage non-compliance reporting and closure of review panels (e.g., regression test panels)
• Support system-level certification and compliance evidence generation
• Plan, prioritise, and execute tasks across multiple programmes, adapting quickly to changing priorities
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and build strong relationships across interfacing teams

• Proven experience in formal Systems Engineering verification and certification processes
• Ability to deliver across multiple concurrent programmes with changing priorities
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
• Proactive and flexible approach to task management
• Knowledge and practical experience using DOORS
• Appreciation of the full Systems Engineering lifecycle

• Salary: Up to £57,000 depending on experience
• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 based on performance
• Pension: Up to 14% total contribution (employer + employee)
• Overtime opportunities
• Flexible working: 2-3 days per week on-site
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Enhanced parental leave: Up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, with additional enhancements for paternity, neonatal leave, and fertility support