Net Zero Senior Systems Engineer

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Job Title: Net Zero Senior Systems EngineerBusiness Area: Lucy Electric (EMS) LtdLocation: ThameJob PurposeWorking as part of a team of engineers you will be key to developing our next generation of embedded automation solutions. This is an excellent opportunity to work with our Innovation and Engineering teams to generate solutions to help our customers meet their Net Zero commitments.The role will be hands on, delivering work packages as part of a larger team. Working on both NPD and customer contracts, a key part of the role is the system definition and the associated requirements partitioning from the MRD/customer specifications, understanding the necessary trade-offs between quality, performance and cost. Also responsible for orchestrating design reviews at key stages during development and working with other disciplines to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose.There will also be other aspects, which are customer facing. This will involve understanding how and where the final deliverable will operate, taking the environmental, communications and overall integration with 3rd party platforms into account, feeding this back into the initial designs and requirements.You must have the ability to work with low TRL concepts and ideas and help mature the requirements and technologies to a level our partner companies and engineering teams can support. The ability to work on a broad range of system architectures using a wide variety of technologies is essential – so is the hunger to learn and expand your knowledge.Job Context

• Provide innovative solutions to technical problems
• Embrace and exploit new and emerging technologies
• Apply logical thinking to solve problems, looking outside of the traditional Lucy Electric domain to bring in new ideas and solutions
• Attend appropriate trade shows and conferences
• Technical liaison both within and outside of Lucy Electric with customer, suppliers and collaboration partners
• Use good engineering practice to design new and modify existing products using company specific software to produce designs and implement systems
• Analyse scope and requirements, identify and solve problems
• Where required take responsibility for the entire product life cycle, including specification, architecture, design, validation & qualification
• Work with-in an agile multi-disciplined team
• Be a key participant of design reviews

Key Accountabilities

• Interface with customers to scope products/systems.
• Orchestrate and attend design reviews, adhere to strict version control, fully document all work, and create content for user documentation, as agreed for each work package.
• Prepare and maintain system level specifications and test cases.
• Assist with project planning and reporting.
• Maintain and apply best practice process for all aspects of development activities.
• Keep up to date with best practice and regulatory standards.
• Contribute to the sign-off and acceptance of Lucy products and systems.
• Be a technical point of contact and support face to face meetings from the early bid phases through to sign-off and delivery.

Qualifications, Experience And SkillsMinimum Qualifications, Knowledge and ExperienceQualifications:

• A degree in a relevant engineering subject (Systems/Hardware/Software engineering or equivalent), or 5+ years working in an engineering environment
• Self-driven individual with hands-on skills

Essential strengths:

• Create concept designs
• Understanding how to define and develop products and systems
• Appreciation of monitoring and measurement technologies
• Appreciation and application of data analysis techniques
• Ability to identify relevant new and emerging technologies
• Analyse the scope and requirements
• Interpret industry standards (BS/ISO/IEC/IEEE)
• Interpret and/or contribute to requirements and specifications
• Knowledge of system development processes and management techniques
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and associated type testing/qualification
• Giving Technical Training

Desirable strengths:

• Knowledge of telecommunications and networking
• Knowledge of common business practices/structures
• Experience of using IP based communications protocols
• Safety critical development principles
• Electrical distribution systems, such as MV distribution systems and switchgear
• Cloud formation/infrastructure deployment including platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google

Behavioural Competencies

• Innovative problem solving
• Methodical approach to problem solving
• Capable of driving ideas/projects forward
• Team leadership
• Able to work effectively to meet agreed timescales having considered and planned the project activities
• Delivering work packages, not just researching ideas or theorising
• Able to work independently or within a team
• Well organised
• Strategic thinker
• Proactive
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Good interpersonal skills with a pleasant and can-do attitude