Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Leading and advising the technical team on the execution of the engineering Design, Assembly, Integration and Verification activities.
• Performing Engineering & Contract Management to deliver the Company contacts on time and on brief through thorough planning and diligent management.
• Managing technical risks through identifying, categorising, monitoring and implementing mitigation actions.
• Converting stakeholder needs and requirements into physical engineered systems that perform according to expectations through functional & physical architecting, analysis and synthesis.
• Identifying, defining, implementing and verifying Interfaces and their associated ICDs.
• Ensuring the delivered systems meet the stakeholder's needs by maintaining traceability of requirements throughout the design evolution and managing baselines (DBL, QBL, PBL, OsBL) and the reviews thereof.
• Integrating and delivering systems with verified performance and quality through preparing & overseeing the execution of verification activities according to verification plans (ATPs/QTPs, ATRs/QTRs) and setting to work of the products and products systems.
• To ensure the delivered systems continue to operate and deliver the expected performance through root cause analysis and problem solving and managing the implementation of design modifications to eliminate failure modes.
• To ensure continued improvement in knowledge growth, retention and management by ensuring that project SEMPs, QAPs, ILSPs, technical schedules, WBS & SOWs are implemented and maintained and continuous mentoring & coaching of SE resources.

JOB REQUIREMENTS
Qualification:

• Eng/B.Sc (Eng) (NQF 8) with 13+ years Relevant Experience
• Eng (NQF 9) with 10+ years RELEVANT Experience
• PhD/D.Eng (NQF 10) with 7+ years Relevant Experience
• Meets the requirements for registration with ECSA as PrEng

Experience:

• Leading engineering teams, tasks and analysis while employing theoretical and practical knowledge gained on the job.
• Proven experience in physical, hands-on integration, testing and evaluation of complicated systems which include RF, digital, electronic and mechanical elements combined with fixed infrastructure.
• Leading the development and implementation of engineering processes.
• Using advanced interpersonal skills in order to influence change in complex systems behaviour and operational environments.
• Undertaking engineering activities throughout all lifecycle phases of systems under development, with particular focus on the concurrent engineering aspects and the design for supportability aspects.
• Functioning simultaneously across multiple domains, teams and on multiple systems.
• Coaching and mentoring in engineering, particularly systems engineering

Knowledge:

• Internationally recognised for advanced applied Systems Engineering.
• Assembly, integration, test and verification of complex systems.
• Baseline establishment and management.
• Engineering change control.
• Hi-tech product development.
• Model-based Systems Engineering
• Development of Systems Engineering processes and procedures.
• Configuration management of systems under development, in production and in service.