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# Senior Systems Engineer

- **Company:** GKN
- **Location:** Bristol, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 3d Models, LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim, Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, MATLAB, Microsoft Office, Systems Development Life Cycle, Simulink, Systems Modeling Language, CATIA V5, Ansys
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f5dfb1e3af4b3173

## About the Role

* HNC, degree OR equivalent experience in electrical, mechanical, or systems engineering
 * Demonstrable experience as an Engineer delivering designs for electro-mechanical, sensing OR controller systems within an engineering environment
 * Proven design and delivery of high quality and reliable systems in a complex regulatory environment (e.g. MIL-STD, TUV cert, etc…)
 * Proven track record (minimum 1 project), in compliance planning and verification & validation analysis for product release
 * Advanced experience of the Systems Development Lifecycle process
 * Intermediate experience of requirement decomposition and tools (e.g. DOORS)
 * Intermediate experience defining system / modular architecture
 * Advanced experience developing system control functions & logic models
 * Ability to design and set-up experiments and fixtures for testing
 * Confident interrogating CAD models and drawings (such CATIA V5)
 * Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications.

Essential General Experience:

 * Technical leadership - Ability to mentor develop functional team members
 * Confident presenting technical information to a wider audience including senior stakeholders and internal customers
 * Live the culture of Plan-Do-Check-Act and continuous improvement
 * Hands-on approach - Have a real desire to be up close to the components and people that build our systems.

Desirable:

 * Working experience delivering system designs using MBSE toolbox (e.g. SysML)
 * Experience in safety assessment software/toolbox FTA and FMEA (e.g. ANSYS Medini, Isograph)
 * Proficiency in multi-domain modelling/simulation packages (e.g. MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, Amesim)

## Description

This is an excellent opportunity for Engineers looking to step up into a Senior Engineer role, with full support for your development and progression., * Quality assurance reviewer of design deliverables created by the Systems Engineering team

 * Data analysis and reporting into qualification arguments and submissions for avionic, control systems and sub-systems
 * Release of stakeholder and internal technical communications
 * Technical work breakdown of program planning objectives
 * Assure best practice development within systems engineering excellence
 * Mentor and develop systems engineering team members
 * System engineering inputs to technology incubator process


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