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Optronics System Engineer
Optronics Systems Engineer
Department: Engineering
Reporting to: Systems Team Leader
The Optronics Systems Engineer’s primary focus is to drive the design and integration of optical, Electrooptical and Laser based sensors into the system design ensuring best practice and the highest safety
standards are maintained.
The Optronics Systems Engineer will be involved throughout the project life cycle from project definition
to design implementation, including requirements capture and management, technical risk management,
system architecture development, functional analysis, concept generation and evaluation, interface
management, subsystem procurement, system verification and validation.
Security
- Due to the nature of the work all candidates must be eligible to obtain security clearance to SC level.
Company Benefits
- 9 day fortnight (every other Friday is a non-working day)
- Competitive salary, company profit sharing scheme, stakeholder pension and death in service scheme, private healthcare with Benenden
- Rewards and recognition scheme and employee engagement initiatives
1. Take the engineering lead for multidisciplinary projects requiring optical, Electro-Optical or Laser
(LRF, Target Designation) capabilities.
2. Capture stakeholder requirements
3. Champion awareness of full product lifecycle in the product design phase, including manufacturing,
safety, reliability, availability, maintainability and disposal
4. Identify and manage interfaces
5. Develop system and sub-system requirements in order to define functions that must be performed
6. Evaluate and down-select system solutions.
7. Identify and manage technical risks and opportunities.
8. Technical content of bid and proposal preparation.
9. Participating in customer meetings.
10. Report generation.
11. Verification and validation planning and testing.
12. Undertake customer and service visits by car, when necessary. As such a full current driving licence
is required.
13. Lead the integration on products in development.
Qualifications
• A good Engineering Degree or equivalent preferred
Experience
• Post graduate experience
• Optronic background preferred
• Product manufacturing background
• Ideally have experience across full product lifecycle
Knowledge
• Requirements management
• Matlab and Simulink desirable
• Working knowledge of Mil Specs and Def Stan’s
• Reliability prediction, FMECA, FTA
• Safety cases
• Knowledge of product qualification tests and methods
Behaviours
• Positive ‘can do’ attitude
• Motivational
• Accountable
• Truthful
• Ethical
• Team focused
• Customer / quality focused
• Outcome / solution focused
• Flexible
Skills & Abilities
• Engineering disciplines, Optical, Electro-Optical, Laser, Mechanical, Electronics, Control and Software
• Excellent communication and people skills.
Please click the link below to download the full application form for this role, and send to recruitment@instro.com once completed.
