Western Cape: Systems Engineering Specialist posted by The Hiring House

Key Responsibilities:
* Leading and advising the technical team on the execution of the engineering Design, Assembly, Integration and Verification activities.
* Performing Engineering & Contract Management to deliver the companies contacts on time and on brief through thorough planning and diligent management.
* Managing technical risks through identifying, categorizing, monitoring and implementing mitigation actions.
* Converting stakeholder needs and requirements into physical engineered systems that perform according to expectations through functional & physical architecting, analysis and synthesis.
* Identifying, defining, implementing and verifying Interfaces and their associated ICDs.
* Ensuring the delivered systems meet the stakeholder’s needs by maintaining traceability of requirements throughout the design evolution and managing baselines (DBL, QBL, PBL, OsBL) and the reviews thereof.
* Integrating and delivering systems with verified performance and quality through preparing & overseeing the execution of verification activities according to verification plans (ATPs/QTPs, ATRs/QTRs) and setting to work of the products and products systems.
* To ensure the delivered systems continue to operate and deliver the expected performance through root cause analysis and problem solving and managing the implementation of design modifications to eliminate failure modes.
* To ensure continued improvement in knowledge growth, retention and management by ensuring that project SEMPs, QAPs, ILSPs, technical schedules, WBS & SOWs are implemented and maintained and continuous mentoring & coaching of SE resources.

Key Requirements:
Qualification:
* B.Eng/B.Sc (Eng) (NQF 8) with 13+ years RELEVANT Experience; or
* M.Eng (NQF 9) with 10+ years RELEVANT Experience; or
* PhD/D.Eng (NQF 10) with 7+ years RELEVANT Experience.
* Meets the requirements for registration with ECSA as PrEng

Experience:
* Leading engineering teams, tasks and analysis while employing theoretical and practical knowledge gained on the job.
* Proven experience in physical, hands-on integration, testing and evaluation of complicated systems which include RF, digital, electronic and mechanical elements combined with fixed infrastructure.
* Leading the development and implementation of engineering processes.
* Using advanced interpersonal skills in order to influence change in complex systems behaviour and operational environments.
* Undertaking engineering activities throughout all lifecycle phases of systems under development, with particular focus on the concurrent engineering aspects and the design for supportability aspects.
* Functioning simultaneously across multiple domains, teams and on multiple systems.
* Coaching and mentoring in engineering, particularly systems engineering.

Knowledge:
* Internationally recognized for advanced applied Systems Engineering.
* Assembly, integration, test and verification of complex systems.
* Baseline establishment and management.
* Engineering change control.
* Hi-tech product development.
* Model-based Systems Engineering
* Development of Systems Engineering processes and procedures.
* Configuration management of systems under development, in production and in service.

Additional Notes:
* Candidates with experience in engineering for radio astronomy or space applications are preferred.
* Candidates who also have operational support / field engineering experience will have an advantage.

Please call us on (***)***-**** for more information. 

NB: Should you not hear from us in 6weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.