Job Description

Permanent

Sandwich, Kent

Optronics Systems Engineer

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Department:

Engineering

Reporting to:

Systems Team Leader



The Optronics Systems Engineer's primary focus is to drive the design and integration of optical, Electro optical and Laser based sensors into the system design ensuring best practice and the highest safety

standards are maintained.

The Optronics Systems Engineer will be involved throughout the project life cycle from project definition

to design implementation, including requirements capture and management, technical risk management,

system architecture development, functional analysis, concept generation and evaluation, interface

management, subsystem procurement, system verification and validation.

Security

Due to the nature of the work all candidates must be eligible to obtain security clearance to SC level.

Company Benefits

9 day fortnight (every other Friday is a non-working day) Competitive salary, company profit sharing scheme, stakeholder pension and death in service scheme, private healthcare with Benenden Rewards and recognition scheme and employee engagement initiatives

Main duties & responsibilities

Qualifications & Experience
Skills & Abilities
1. Take the engineering lead for multidisciplinary projects requiring optical, Electro-Optical or Laser

(LRF, Target Designation) capabilities.

2. Capture stakeholder requirements

3. Champion awareness of full product lifecycle in the product design phase, including manufacturing,

safety, reliability, availability, maintainability and disposal

4. Identify and manage interfaces

5. Develop system and sub-system requirements in order to define functions that must be performed

6. Evaluate and down-select system solutions.

7. Identify and manage technical risks and opportunities.

8. Technical content of bid and proposal preparation.

9. Participating in customer meetings.

10. Report generation.

11. Verification and validation planning and testing.

12. Undertake customer and service visits by car, when necessary. As such a full current driving licence

is required.

13. Lead the integration on products in development.