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We have exciting opportunities to join the Lockheed Martin team in Havant, Hampshire as a Lead Systems Engineer.

We’ll provide you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, but equally important you can also enjoy a strong work life balance. To ensure this we offer a flexible work schedule and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work.

Our 4 Flex working fortnight is a particular favourite amongst the team, giving you every Friday off, to spend more time doing the things you enjoy.

You will work mainly within the engineering team on Airborne Mission Systems, with particular focus on Merlin, a programme which Lockheed Martin has been involved with for around 30 years. In addition, you will have opportunities to work both on our existing portfolio of programmes and future capabilities, which we want you to help shape.

For more information on Merlin click here

You will primarily be home based with occasional travel to the Havant offices and our customer sites in Crawley and Yeovil. This would really suit you If you have a background in Aerospace, particularly Helicopters, or other highly regulated industries such as Automotive, as well as exposure to synthetic training systems development.

You will experience a wide range of engineering activities including:

• Leading a technical team on a sub system or part of a system
• Becoming the Cognizant (responsible) Engineer for a sub system of part of a sub system.
• Requirements Derivation
• Review, advise and approve system test plans and acceptance test documentation
• Leading Design efforts of Bespoke Aerospace Software/Hardware interfaces and systems
• Modelling and Systems design
• Interpreting engineering drawings using CAD
• Translate business requirements into appropriate technical specifications
• Manage your time and the teams time effectively to develop effective solutions to cost and quality targets
• Provide technical input to programme management and commercial staff and support where required in the use of LM and industry tools
• Any additional Programme related tasks assigned that are within area of expertise, competence and skill set.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients and suppliers across all levels of the organisation both internally and with the customer

What’s in it for you?

• A chance to be an integral part of building a successfully realistic training system for our Armed Forces, knowing what you do makes them safe and effective in their role
• Working with a supportive team who wants to see you thrive and deliver
• The opportunity to lead, collaborative with, and mentor others

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Comprehensive understanding of Systems Engineering tools processes and practices. (TOGAF, UML/SysML, DOORS)
• Ability to direct other more junior staff to achieve technical objectives and solutions.
• Solid Understanding of requirements definition and interface documentation required to support the development and acceptance of solutions.
• Extensive Understanding of Test and Qualification procedures and practices, especially with regard to requirement sell off.
• Strong communication skills, and the ability to write in a clear and concise manner
• Positive attitude, and willingness to get involved with tasks across the System Engineering lifecycle
• The ability to manage tasks and priorities to ensure that assigned workload is delivered when required.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of audiences on sometimes complex

Desired skills, qualifications and experience

• Experience of working in a highly regulated industry
• Experience as a Tech lead or similar position.
• Experience with being the technical approver or similar role.
• Degree in Engineering or other STEM subjects
• Experience of Airborne Systems with experience of Merlin Mk2 platform
• Ability to analyse technical problems and provide pragmatic solutions
• Proven ability to produce cost effective and technically compliant solutions
• Practical experience of Model Based Systems Engineering (SysML, Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect)

12993BR

Full Time

37.5

4xFlex

United Kingdom (UK)

SC

No

At Lockheed Martin our employees come first and therefore your physical, mental and financial wellbeing matters to us. On top of working in a highly supportive, friendly, respectful environment you can expect so much more.
We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off. We offer Competitive salaries alongside a flexible holiday entitlement.
We have a Wealth of benefits available to you that can be selected through our wellbeing tool upon commencement of employment. Just a few of our amazing benefits are shown below:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Competitive Pension
• Dental
• Critical Illness
• Life Assurance
• Travel Insurance
• Employee discounts for top high street shops
• Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counselling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc
• Internal training and development alongside out Education assistance programmes
• Reimbursement for a professional membership
• Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets. Simply stated, our mission is to be the world’s leading global security and aerospace company. To achieve this mission, RMS draws on its core capabilities in advanced platforms and weapons, C4ISR, global sustainment, training and sensors.

Lockheed Martin recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. Discrimination on any of these grounds is expressly forbidden. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community.

26/03/2024