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# Senior Principal Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Rolls-Royce
- **Location:** Heybridge, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://rollsroyce.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/professional/job/Heybridge/Senior-Principal-Systems-Engineer_JR6150975-1

## About the Role

* Qualified to at least degree level in electrical engineering or similar disciplines or equivalent industry experience.
 * Member of a professional body - Chartered Engineer status in an appropriate discipline would be expected for a sufficiently experienced engineer in this role.
 * At least 7 years or more professional experience in electrical engineering, designing automation systems and the management of projects / programs of increasing complexity.
 * Significant domain knowledge and experience of naval or marine automation and control systems.
 * Has experience in all stages of a project lifecycle and has been responsible for the delivery of one or more of those stages.
 * Proven ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems and to make balanced decisions in complex situations and with incomplete information.

Preferred requirements:

 * Knowledge and experience of delivering systems complying with naval and marine standards, specifications and safety standards.
 * Member of a Professional Engineering Body - Chartered Engineer or equivalent

## Description

As the Senior Principal Systems Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring that Rolls-Royce has sufficient oversight for our products to meet business, customer, and regulatory requirements.

What you will be doing:

 * Review and agree high level automation requirements including their testability.
 * Analyse and translate high level requirements into a validated design for automation systems.
 * Capture applicable design constraints and quality attributes that apply to the component.
 * Interface between external and internal customers, to elicit and validate all stakeholder requirements including business, technical customers, and partners.
 * Design and implement automation designs to meet the high-level requirements and design constraints/standards.
 * Allocate automation requirements to test vehicles defined in the verification plan.
 * Create an appropriate Enterprise Architecture solution which serves both business and technical needs.
 * Develops, implements, documents, and maintains policies, procedures, associated guidelines, tools, and training as required.
 * Creation of documents e.g. Functional Design Specification (FDS), Control and Monitoring Description (CMD), Test Specifications and Operator/Maintenance Manuals.
 * Liaises with other disciplines to understand functional performance capabilities of components of the system to facilitate effective component design.
 * Set the Systems Engineering and Verification approach for an Engineering Programme through the Configuration Management Plan.
 * Implement PLC code.
 * Clarification and Definition of communication interfaces between the Rolls-Royce Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) and 3rd party systems.