Job Description

To advance the maturity of the Company projects and products throughout their lifecycles while applying systems engineering leadership and recognised engineering competence and skills across multiple domains, teams and on multiple projects.
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.

For more information please contact:
Gugulethu Ndayi