Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £30 to £36 per hour

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Systems Engineers :

Due to a substantial increase in workload a World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit 8 Systems Engineers who could come from a variety of different backgrounds; Systems Design Engineers / Systems Architects / Integration & Validation Engineers etc.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing and long-term thereafter).
Department offering hourly rates of £30 - £36 per hour.

Systems Engineer Description:

Systems Engineers with strong knowledge of several of the following System Design related tools and experience are of interest:

: Electronics Integration and Proving skills
: DOORS
: SysML
: UML
: MATLAB
: Simulink
: Rhapsody
: Aristisan
: Excel
: Requirements flow down and analysis
: Interface Documentation

Academic Qualification:

Ideal - BSc/MSc/MEng in systems engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or equivalent.

Experience Requirements:

Candidates from the defence, aerospace industry are ideal however other industries will be considered so long as you posses the necessary Systems Engineering skills and experience.

An ideal area of your previous work could come from the following domains;
Missile/Weapon Systems
Systems Combat
Command & Control Systems

In addition the successful candidate will…………

• have the ability to visualize and analyse complex systems
• have good analysis skills
• have good verbal, presentation and written communication skills
• have practical knowledge of basic systems engineering principles and processes.
• be able to work with engineering teams, including in-house and contractor personnel
• be pro-active and be capable of working on their own initiative with a minimum of supervision
• have good working experience in more than one phase of the engineering life cycle, with sufficient experience of the total life cycle to ensure a good understanding of adjacent phases and through-life engineering issues

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £55,000 per year + Bonus, Flexitime, Pension, Healthcare, Overtime

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Combat / Weapons Systems Engineer -

International Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a number of Combat / Weapons Systems Engineers (of varying skill-sets, experiences and career levels) - ideally candidates will have a background of working in a Defence, MoD or Aerospace industry as a Systems Engineer although other industry’s and backgrounds will be considered.

Please Note: you must be able to gain SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you're not already cleared to that level.

The Systems Engineering department(s) are looking to fill a variety of roles at different levels - so as a result the salary banding is wide and salary’s offered will be dependant on experience and skills – banding approx £35k - £55k. Fantastic benefits come with this role and include; annual bonus, paid overtime, flexitime, a comprehensive pension scheme, private healthcare, fantastic site facilities, superb career and development opportunities, plus many others.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
• Experience of working in a Systems Engineering environment.
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills e.g. System Study Trade-offs

Experience in two or more of the following;

• System Definition
• UML / SysML experience
• DOORS experience
• Systems Architecture Development e.g. MODAF
• Requirements capture, decomposition and management
• System Design and Analysis
• Design Studies
• Design/Performance Modelling
• System Integration
• Design Proving and Trials
• Interface Design
• System assessment and acceptance
• Radar Systems studies (Trade off studies, requirements apportionment, sensitivity studies etc.)
• Math Modelling including Model Based Design (using FORTRAN, C, Matlab, Simulink, Statemate)
• Signal processing (e.g. Target Detection, Target Acquisition, Image processing, particularly Doppler Beam Sharpening)
• Algorithm development (Digital filtering, DFT processing, Track formation and propagation etc.)
• System and Sub-System Specification
• System Test, Integration and Certification, Trials Analysis
• Knowledge of RF systems

Ideally worked (or a desire to work) in at least one of the following related Areas:

• Missile/Weapon Systems
• Combat Systems
• Command & Control Systems
• Radar System Design
• Control Systems
• Military Communications
• Data Link Systems
• Sensor Fusion
• The ability to speak French and/or Italian would be beneficial.

Support and/or Lead the design of Complex Weapon Systems covering Land, Sea and Air based products:

• Carry out a full range of technical analyses and investigations, including evaluation and selection of technical options, individually or as a member of a project team.
• Lead engineering or Support activities in the field (and carry out the most complex activities) for specific products and customers to ensure the operability of products.
• Prepare a full range of specifications (System, Sub-System etc.), develop designs in line with demanding customer specifications.
• Liaise with customer and subcontractors e.g. Review Customer's needs, present findings and promote Design Solutions.
• Lead or Support Bid Preparation for future Systems work.
• Undertake System performance analysis
• Undertake the definition of trials requirements
• Undertake Trials data analysis
• Undertake Technology research and development activities

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £45,000 per year + Bonus, Flexitime, Healthcare, Overtime, Pension

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Simulation & Modelling Systems Engineer :

International Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit 5x Simulation & Modelling Systems Engineers to work on exiting existing and future projects.

The department has vacancy’s that would suit candidates with a background of using the following skills; Systems Design, UML, SysML, RF Systems Engineering, Matlab, Simulink, Statemate, Systems Architect, Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Mathematical Modelling, Simulation & Algorithms.

The role(s) are ideal for someone who has a strong systems engineering background.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The salary on offer is £35k - £45k and comes with great benefits including; overtime, flexitime, company and individual bonus scheme, pension and company healthcare etc.

Responsibilities may include:

Perform analysis of data gathered during ground trials and a telemetry firing.
Undertake System performance analysis
Identify problems within the system, report these and propose changes to the system design
Model suggested improvements to system design.
Update the software requirements specification and provide test vectors to the software team to enable software test
Attend trials site and participate in data gathering activities

Experience/Skills:

In any of the below………..

• System Definition
• UML / SysML experience
• DOORS experience
• Systems Architecture Development e.g. MODAF
• Requirements capture, decomposition and management
• System Design and Analysis
• Design Studies
• Design/Performance Modelling
• System Integration
• Design Proving and Trials
• Interface Design
• System assessment and acceptance
• Radar Systems studies (Trade off studies, requirements, sensitivity studies etc.)
• Math Modelling including Model Based Design (using FORTRAN, C, Matlab, Simulink, Statemate)
• Signal processing (e.g. Target Detection, Target Acquisition, Image processing, particularly Doppler Beam Sharpening)
• Algorithm development (Digital filtering, DFT processing, Track formation and propagation etc.)
• System and Sub-System Specification
• System Test, Integration and Certification, Trials Analysis
• Knowledge of RF systems

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £45,000 per year + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Overtime, Flexitime

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Software Simulation / Systems Engineer (Synthetic Environment) :

Highly successful Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Software Simulation / Systems Engineer.

This role is suitable for people who have synthetic environment experience. Also requires software simulation networks experience, and Coding C++

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you’re not already cleared to that level.

The salary on offer is £35k - £45k and comes with great benefits including; overtime, flexitime, company and individual bonus scheme, pension and company healthcare etc.

Software Simulation / Systems Engineer Job Description:

Support and/or Lead the design and development of System TestBeds & components of Complex Weapon Systems covering Land, Sea and Air based products.

The Weapon System Simulation and Experimentation Department spans the UK, France, Italy and Germany providing specialised defence simulation capabilities for concept exploration, programme development and user experimentation and training.
The role covers design and development of leading-edge software applications to support battlefield simulations, working in close collaboration with subject matter experts from across Land, Air and Sea defence programmes. Each programme is different, but commonly extends to simulation of many of the battlefield participants; Command and Control structures, Platforms and Weapon Systems.

As a member of a focussed and dynamic team, you will explore and exploit new technologies, in both the defence and commercial markets, and take ownership of their design, development and integration to enhance our international SE capability. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our customers, both internal and external, and partner companies at both a national and international level.
Your flexibility, motivation and experience will help you to embrace the many technical challenges that our business presents; whether that is the simulation of a new weapon, the integration of an international test bed or the use of your software in warfighting simulations.

Develop software components, applications and analysis tools for WSSE TestBeds.
Lead or support development of simulation architectures to produce testbeds that map meaningfully to weapon system architectures.
Lead or support design of testbeds to support Experimentation, with analysis and reporting as appropriate to the level of experiment
Maintain Software Design Records and configuration control of testbeds. Create test plans, carry out testing and report test results for components and/or testbeds.

Bid Preparation for future WSSE work.
Liaise with customer e.g. Review Customer’s needs, present findings and promote the WSSE System TestBed Through Life philosophy.
Undertake the development of system & WSSE Uconcepts and ideas for the resolution of Technical Problems and future work.
Undertake Experiment data analysis
Undertake Technology research and development activities

Skills & Knowledge :

Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
Experience of working in Simulation and Experimentation or similar area.

Essential skills:

• Modern programming languages (C++, C#, Java)
• Networking & network protocols

Experience in two or more of the following:

• Development environments (Visual Studio, Eclipse)
• Distributed simulation standards / Protocols (DIS, HLA, DDS)
• Visualisation programming (DirectX, OpenGL, Graphics/Games Engines)
• Real-time software development
• Military Communications and Datalinks

Ideally experience from the following related areas:

• System engineering
• Software engineering
• System integration
• Programme management

The ability to speak French and/or Italian would be beneficial.

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £30 to £36 per hour

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Systems Engineer - Method and Tools Specialist :

Systems Engineer - Method and Tools Specialist, on a contract basis currently being recruited by world class defence organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

You do not need to hold current SC Security Clearance; however you must be eligible to be cleared to this level.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing after).

Department offering hourly rates of £30 - £36 per hour.

Systems Engineer - Method and Tools Specialist Job Description:

Provision of "in-project" support to Systems Engineering methods and tools activities.

Key responsibilities include:

* Providing in-project consultancy style support to key projects, in particular during their start-up phase, tailored to project needs to ensure maximum project benefit is obtained from tool use
* Assessing current expertise relating to core Systems Engineering tools such as Rhapsody, DOORS and Dimensions and developing/delivering process improvement
* Supporting implementation of Through Lifecycle Collaborative Environment and MBSE related activities (International and National based)
* Ability to understand and implement MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) concepts into practising projects.
* Provision of appropriate training on tool usage to projects Systems Engineers, in particular use of Rhapsody
* Developing appropriate DOORS tool to manage requirements, verification and safety information and import and export of data
* Testing in-house DOORS tool set with new DOORS releases and associated integrations e.g. Rhapsody toolset
* Supporting Rhapsody Gateway linking to elements managed in DOORS
* Supporting High Performance Computing facility using Microsoft HPC Server 2008 R2
* Liaising with the wider IM function in order to support the systems engineering tools
* Being able to introduce and sustain the development of SE/MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) techniques into projects
* Maintaining alignment of method and tool application at National and International levels.
* Ensuring maximum project benefit from the use of tools by advising projects and tailoring/developing the toolset where required, by the use of macros and templates for example, to meet project specific needs

Skills and experience:

* Good background in Systems Engineering.
* A sound understanding of state of the art systems engineering tools and their application in the systems engineering domain
* Significant use/experience of SysML, UML, Rhapsody, DOORS and Dimensions on major projects
* Good knowledge of DXL scripting
* Experience of Configuration Management, preferably Serena Dimensions
* Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, plus a number of years relevant experience (not including initial graduate training or the equivalent if an external recruit)

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £55,000 per year + Annual Bonus, Flexitime, Pension, Healthcare, Overtime

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit 4x Senior Safety and Reliability Engineers.

Please note: the Organisation is also happy to consider candidates who are suitably qualified in only Safety or Reliability.........

Safety-only candidates should be experienced in hazard identification and management, risk analysis and the production of safety arguments/cases and ALARP statements.

Reliability-only candidates should be experienced in the production of FMECAs and reliability predictions, analysis of test and in-service reliability data and production of reliability cases.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you're not already cleared to that level.

The Safety and Reliability Engineering department is looking to fill a variety of roles at different levels - so as a result the salary banding is wide and salary’s offered will be dependant on experience and skills – banding approx £35k - £55k and comes with great benefits including; overtime, flexitime, company and individual bonus scheme, pension and company healthcare etc.

Job Description:

Production of Reliability and Safety Cases.

Duties include:

Generation of reliability and safety programme plans and agreement of such programmes with the project and the customer, commensurate with the requirements of the DEF STAN 00-40 series of standards or DEF-STAN 00-56, as applicable. Responsible for the generation, promotion and realization of the stated strategy on a given project.

Conduct a series of system and sub-system reliability activities in support of this plan during all lifecycle phases including, but not limited to:

Production of FMECAs
Preparation of reliability and maintainability predictions
Reliability growth and demonstration test planning, including analysis of the results
Provide support to internal and external project Reliability Panels and Committees
With the reliability focal points, assist in the management and integration of these activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure the timely delivery of material supporting the reliability case.
Liaison with other functions in order to derive reliability requirements.

Conduct a series of system and sub-system safety activities in support of this plan during all lifecycle phases including, but not limited to:

Hazard Identification exercises (SWIFT and HAZOP)
Hazard management and risk analysis, including Fault Tree and event tree analysis
Construction of safety arguments and ALARP statements
Provide support to internal and external project Safety Panels and Committees
With the safety focal points, assist in the management and integration of these activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure the timely delivery of material supporting the safety case.
Liaison with other functions in order to derive safety requirements and hazards.

Working with systems team in order to demonstrate satisfaction of safety and reliability requirements

Performance Indicators:

Ability to construct a safety argument that is acceptable to the end customer, project Chief Engineer and the Independent Guided Weapon Safety Officer

Ability to construct a reliability argument that is acceptable to the end customer and project Chief Engineer

Ability to deliver supporting information (reliability/safety case reports, hazard analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, FMECA, reliability predictions, etc) that are timely and acceptable to the above stakeholder community.

Bid preparation is appropriately scoped in terms of complexity and level of effort to fit the nature of the proposal.

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £32 to £35 per hour

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Weapon System Simulation Engineer :

Due to a substantial increase in workload a World class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Weapon System Simulation Engineer.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing after).

The department are offering hourly rates of £32 - £35 per hour.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
• Experience of working in Simulation and Experimentation or similar area.

Essential skills:
• Modern programming languages (C++, C#, Java)
• Networking & network protocols

Experience in two or more of the following
• Development environments (Visual Studio, Eclipse)
• Distributed simulation standards / Protocols (DIS, HLA, DDS)
• Visualisation programming (DirectX, OpenGL, Graphics/Games Engines)
• Real-time software development
• Military Communications and Datalinks

Ideally experience from the following related areas:
• System engineering
• Software engineering
• System integration

Accountabilities:

• Support and/or Lead the design and development of System TestBeds & components of Complex Weapon Systems covering Land, Sea and Air based products.
• The Weapon System Simulation and Experimentation Department spans the UK, France, Italy and Germany providing specialised defence simulation capabilities for concept exploration, programme development and user experimentation and training.
• The role covers design and development of leading-edge software applications to support battlefield simulations, working in close collaboration with subject matter experts from across Land, Air and Sea defence programmes. Each programme is different, but commonly extends to simulation of many of the battlefield participants; Command and Control structures, Platforms and Weapon Systems.
• As a member of a focussed and dynamic team, you will explore and exploit new technologies, in both the defence and commercial markets, and take ownership of their design, development and integration to enhance our international SE capability.
• Your flexibility, motivation and experience will help you to embrace the many technical challenges that our business presents; whether that is the simulation of a new weapon, the integration of an international test bed or the use of your software in warfighting simulations.
• Develop software components, applications and analysis tools for WSSE TestBeds.
• Support development of simulation architectures to produce testbeds that map meaningfully to weapon system architectures.
• Support design of testbeds to support Experimentation, with analysis and reporting as appropriate to the level of experiment
• Maintain Software Design Records and configuration control of testbeds. Create test plans, carry out testing and report test results for components and/or testbeds.
• Plan, control and deliver assigned project tasks or work packages, and make an input as required to cross-functional or international projects/investigations.
• Liaise with customer e.g. Review Customer’s needs, present findings and promote the WSSE System TestBed Through Life philosophy.
• Undertake the development of system & WSSE concepts and ideas for the resolution of Technical Problems and future work.
• Undertake Experiment data analysis & Technology research and development activities

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £32 to £35 per hour

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Weapon System Simulation Engineer :

Due to a substantial increase in workload a World class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Weapon System Simulation Engineer.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing after).

The department are offering hourly rates of £32 - £35 per hour.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
• Experience of working in Simulation and Experimentation or similar area.

Essential skills:
• Modern programming languages (C++, C#, Java)
• Networking & network protocols

Experience in two or more of the following
• Development environments (Visual Studio, Eclipse)
• Distributed simulation standards / Protocols (DIS, HLA, DDS)
• Visualisation programming (DirectX, OpenGL, Graphics/Games Engines)
• Real-time software development
• Military Communications and Datalinks

Ideally experience from the following related areas:
• System engineering
• Software engineering
• System integration

Accountabilities:

• Support and/or Lead the design and development of System TestBeds & components of Complex Weapon Systems covering Land, Sea and Air based products.
• The Weapon System Simulation and Experimentation Department spans the UK, France, Italy and Germany providing specialised defence simulation capabilities for concept exploration, programme development and user experimentation and training.
• The role covers design and development of leading-edge software applications to support battlefield simulations, working in close collaboration with subject matter experts from across Land, Air and Sea defence programmes. Each programme is different, but commonly extends to simulation of many of the battlefield participants; Command and Control structures, Platforms and Weapon Systems.
• As a member of a focussed and dynamic team, you will explore and exploit new technologies, in both the defence and commercial markets, and take ownership of their design, development and integration to enhance our international SE capability.
• Your flexibility, motivation and experience will help you to embrace the many technical challenges that our business presents; whether that is the simulation of a new weapon, the integration of an international test bed or the use of your software in warfighting simulations.
• Develop software components, applications and analysis tools for WSSE TestBeds.
• Support development of simulation architectures to produce testbeds that map meaningfully to weapon system architectures.
• Support design of testbeds to support Experimentation, with analysis and reporting as appropriate to the level of experiment
• Maintain Software Design Records and configuration control of testbeds. Create test plans, carry out testing and report test results for components and/or testbeds.
• Plan, control and deliver assigned project tasks or work packages, and make an input as required to cross-functional or international projects/investigations.
• Liaise with customer e.g. Review Customer’s needs, present findings and promote the WSSE System TestBed Through Life philosophy.
• Undertake the development of system & WSSE concepts and ideas for the resolution of Technical Problems and future work.
• Undertake Experiment data analysis & Technology research and development activities