Elicit, analyse, and manage stakeholder and system requirements, ensuring traceability across the lifecycle.
Develop system architectures and design artefacts, including functional, logical, and physical views.
Support decomposition of requirements from system to subsystem and component levels.
Collaborate with architects, developers, and integration teams to ensure coherent and feasible system designs.
Support verification and validation planning, ensuring requirements are testable and aligned to acceptance criteria.
Contribute to documentation and governance artefacts in line with MOD and industry standards.
Examine key design drivers, standards and requirements.

Degree qualification in Marine Engineering (or related subject such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering etc) at either Bachelor’s or Master’s level;
Be a Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, or show evidence of ongoing CPD towards Chartered status;
Proven ability to solve complex marine systems engineering problems, including/such as trade-off analysis and design trade studies.
Experience in marine or naval systems engineering, ideally on warship or submarine design studies (especially surface combatants).
Experience of working on naval ship studies and design activity during ship acquisition.
Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams and able to obtain a security clearance.
Proven experience as a Marine Systems Engineer within Defence or complex system environments with a strong understanding of marine systems engineering principles and lifecycle models (e.g. V-model, Agile, hybrid approaches).

Marine Systems Engineer

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