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# Systems Engineer II

- **Company:** Steris plc.
- **Location:** Bishop's Stortford, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Software Bug Management, Requirements Management, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Integration
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2842886169-systems-engineer-ii

## About the Role

* You must hold a BS Degree in Electrical, Software, or Mechanical Engineering discipline, other engineering disciplines will be considered. A Master's degree is also preferred.
 * 1 or more years of involvement in a multi-discipline new product development environment.
 * Understanding and interest in other engineering areas.
 * Systems thinking acuity
 * Demonstrated ability in technical analysis including evaluation of multiple candidate solutions and significant evaluation of intangibles
 * Ability to propose methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to realize product functionality
 * Proven technical leadership in matrix environment.
 * Excellent communication, influencing and conflict resolution skills
 * Experience with technical writing
 * Excellent technical writing, and presentation skills
 * Preferred: Systems modeling background, Strong communication and problem solving skills.

## Description

The Systems Engineer within the IPT (Infection Prevention Technology) business will be responsible for the overall technical leadership and technical realization of new features or substantially evolved existing features. This person will have the opportunity to work cross functionally with multiple engineering disciplines and program managers and will be the technical stakeholder leading the system level reviews, while working within the project constraints of schedule, cost, performance, quality and reliability objectives. You will begin to drive refinement and translation of stakeholder requirements including Customer safety, reliability, clinical application, serviceability, manufacturability, quality etc. Additionally you will translate the requirements management policies of the program and quality of requirements, development of technical approach, top level design, feasibility of potential technical solutions, and allocation of derived requirements, including functionality,
interface specifications and design budgets onto affected subsystems. The Systems Engineer will plan, oversee and execute the Systems Engineering activities in the project, including initiation, coordination, synchronization, review and integration of the technical work performed within various Engineering disciplines You will also leads cross-discipline feasibility and trade-off studies, drive system-level design & technical reviews. There will also be an aspect of leading defect management, risk management, usability activities, preparation of documentation, system integration, verification and validation. You will also define testing requirements and strategy.


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