Assystem is recruiting for a Project Systems Engineer to lead and coordinate systems engineering activities within a project. The role involves defining, managing, and controlling project-level requirements, ensuring engineering outputs integrate to form a viable, safe, and deliverable system solution.
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline.
- Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or demonstrable route toward chartership (desirable).
- Significant experience in an engineering design environment where systems thinking and integration are key attributes.
- Demonstrable experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering coordination activities.
- Experience defining, capturing, and managing project-level requirements, including functional and derived requirements.
- Experience facilitating structured requirements and value management workshops.
- Experience ensuring traceability between requirements, design outputs, and verification strategy.
- Experience supporting technical optioneering and structured decision-making processes.
- Experience identifying and managing cross-discipline technical risks and interface risks.
- Experience developing and maintaining systems-level documentation (e.g., requirement specifications, system architectures, interface control documents).
- Experience working within regulated or safety-critical environments.
- Strong stakeholder management capability and ability to build technical consensus.
- Systems Engineering accreditation (e.g., INCOSE ASEP/CSEP or equivalent).
- Formal training in requirements management and verification & validation methodologies.
- Postgraduate qualification in systems engineering or a related discipline (advantageous).
- Experience operating in a nuclear or highly regulated environment.
- Experience across multiple lifecycle phases (Appraise, Define, Deliver).
- Experience supporting hazard identification and ensuring hazards are appropriately addressed within system design.
- Experience defining verification and validation strategies proportionate to risk and lifecycle phase.
- Familiarity with Sellafield governance processes and gated lifecycle.
- Experience working with systems engineering methodologies and tools.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for career development and growth.
- Diverse and inclusive work environment.
- Comprehensive training and development programs.
- Health insurance and other benefits.
