Job Description

Principal Engineer - Electrical (Control and Instrumentation)

Project: Sub-Sea / Defence

Rate: £57.33 PH INSIDE IR35

The Principal Engineer (C) Electrical Engineering shall provide support to the Engineering Manager and/or external specialists during development, analysis, integration and verification of platform control and instrumentation systems.

The Principal Engineer

Shall act as team lead, managing the day-to-day activities of the team and the production of
deliverables.

The Principal Engineer shall be responsible for developing and maintaining the
competency and skills of the team, project plan and schedule project activities, while
managing the resolution of any related issues.

JOB FUNCTION

In accordance with the level of supervision/responsibility assigned by role/grade:

Develop design solutions to agreed time, cost and quality in accordance with project
or business milestones.

Develop and manage requirements and acceptance criteria specific to a system or
product and/or across a system of systems, platform or programme

Understand the contractual and performance requirements for various systems, and
support the definition and associated acceptance criteria and events through design,
build, integration, installation and commissioning activities.

Produce documentation required to support the design review process, including:

diagrams technical specifications supporting calculations design evidence and justifications

Ensure design proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management tools and has been endorsed by the appropriate level of authority.

Ensure compliance against contractual requirements and that work is undertaken in
accordance with company, safety, environmental, contractual and local business
processes, standards, procedures and documentation.

Undertake design reviews and presentations to customers.

Provide technical support to integrated performance and acceptance activities, including acceptance of equipment from suppliers through to system acceptance by the customer

Review relevant supplier documentation and ensure it is captured and recorded appropriately.

Support the development of estimates for the scope of work and resources required to deliver it in order to support bids, proposal development and project planning activities for various systems.

Provide support to the Certificate of Design activities appropriate to the discipline and articulate and present complex technical argument clearly, logically and simply.

Deliver technical input and engineering solutions in support of build activities, defect resolution and change management

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND DELIVERABLES

Technical reports and specifications
Functional System Diagrams
System design evidence
System Safety Justifications.
Technical presentations
System calculations, modelling and analysis
Developing test procedures
Attending factory acceptance tests
Configuration and testing of equipment

SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE and QUALIFICATIONS
BEng (Hons) / MEng or equivalent.
CEng (or be able to satisfy requirements for CEng)
Technical report writing skills.
Demonstrable experience of engineering lifecycle.
Knowledge and experience in defence standards whilst not essential would be an advantage.

Questions?

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