Job Title: Systems Engineer – Reliability & Assurance
Location: High Wycombe
Term: Initial 12 Months
IR35: INSIDE
Hourly Rate: £DOE
WFH: Hybrid
The Role
Are you a Systems Engineer with a passion for reliability, availability and engineering assurance? We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Contractor to support the development and delivery of highly reliable, mission‑critical systems within a complex defence environment. This role will play a key part in ensuring systems are designed, integrated, verified and supported to achieve the highest levels of performance, availability and operational effectiveness. Working across the full engineering lifecycle, you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, customers and stakeholders to manage requirements, support verification activities, influence design decisions and drive reliability‑focused engineering best practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain system requirements throughout the engineering life cycle.
- Support the development of highly reliable and secure systems for UK Defence applications.
- Analyse system requirements to ensure completeness, traceability, testability and compliance.
- Support reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) activities throughout the development life cycle.
- Contribute to verification, validation, integration and qualification planning and execution.
- Support root‑cause investigations, risk reduction activities and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Work closely with design, integration and test teams to ensure engineering solutions meet performance and operational requirements.
- Ensure effective configuration management, data integrity and requirements coordination.
Requirements
- Proven Systems Engineering experience within defence, aerospace, nuclear or other highly regulated industries.
- Strong understanding of reliability, availability, maintainability and systems assurance principles.
- Experience managing complex requirements throughout the system life cycle.
- Knowledge of Information Assurance and secure system design for UK MoD environments.
- Experience supporting verification, validation, integration and qualification activities.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to identify and mitigate technical risks.
- Experience working with requirements management tools and configuration‑controlled environments.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Degree qualified in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience in Reliability Engineering, Availability Analysis, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis or related disciplines.
- Experience supporting in‑service systems and long‑term capability programmes.
- Knowledge of electronic and electrical systems within defence or aerospace applications.
- Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) and through‑life support experience.
- Experience with Jama Connect, Jira or other requirements management tools.
- Familiarity with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
- Experience working on secure or classified programmes.
If you are a Systems Engineer who understands that reliability starts with robust requirements, disciplined engineering and strong stakeholder collaboration, I would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to gain is required to be considered for this vacancy.
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