Senior System Engineer

Bristol, United Kingdom

Full Time

Systems Engineering

Experienced

Company overview

Civitanavi UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Civitanavi Systems S.p.A., has been established to address major business opportunities in the UK and to bring the UK a sovereign capability in high grade inertial sensors and systems and GNSS products. Civitanavi UK Ltd will be based in a brand new facility in Bristol, close to major aerospace and defence customers and travel links (hybrid working will be considered). The UK business has already established a strong reputation with major UK primes and is now ready to recruit for a number of key roles.
Civitanavi Systems is a professional yet dynamic company with a can-do attitude at all levels. The business is hungry for ideas and passionate about delivering to the customer what they need when they need it, “We Care, We Perform, We Deliver” is not just a slogan, it is a driving principle.

Civitanavi Systems S.p.A. is fully owned by Honeywell.

Candidates must be eligible to obtain UK security clearances Hopefully this will focus the responses better.

Job Summary
Senior System Engineer, involved into the design and the technical development of inertial navigation systems (either for the Industrial domain or for the Aerospace&Defence domain).
Main tasks will be the analysis of customer requirements, the generation of the system architecture and the set of formal system requirements, the definition of the applicable methods for the requirements validation, the specification of the procedures required to verify the design, the support for the proper installation of the product into the target platform and the overall coordination of the system development, integration and qualification/certification activities, together with the continuous relationship with the customer for all technical aspects.

Duties and responsabilities

Define System Development Plans in accordance with the recognized standards (ARP4754, ARP4761)
Organizing and ruling the documentation for the program development
Define High level System Requirements and System Architecture
Flow-down of requirements from system to items level (SW, HW, MECH, etc.)
Review, gathering and analysis of low-level requirements for the various subassemblies and components (mechanical parts, electronic boards, optical and opto-electronics components, software and firmware (FPGA) modules), configuration parameters)
Static and dynamic analysis of IMU performance
Define together with the relevant departments the system integration and test of INS/AHRS/IMU with complex software and hardware
System qualification management according to widely recognized standards, such as DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461
Review and approval of technical design documents and data pertaining to the system under development
Review and approval of acceptance test reports, qualification test reports, similarity analysis reports and all technical studies related to the system under development
Timely release of all required deliverables for achieving on-time the contractual milestones, as indicated by the Program Manager
Provide detailed task schedule to setup and updated periodically the Program Master Schedule (Gantt chart) together with the Project Controller
Interfacing company departments, such as Engineering, Product Engineering, Prototype Manufacturing, Production, Quality Assurance, Procurement and Supply Chain.
Participation in the definition of new products to support the company technology roadmap and the strategic marketing
Evaluation of the technical specification included in the documentation package of the bid/request for proposal (RFP), to contribute to the preparation of the technical proposal and to the compilation of the requirements compliance matrix
Acting as technical reference and main interface for the customer, in coordination and harmonization with the Program Manager
Technical interface with subcontractors, in support of the Procurement office

Qualification and skills

Required Skills

University degree in Electronics, Opto-Electronics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or equivalent
Knowledge of avionics, navigation and related algorithms, control systems theory
Knowledge of main communication interfaces and protocols (ARINC, RS, CAN, ecc.)
Knowledge of ARP4754 and ARP4761 guidelines
Knowledge of RTCA DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461 environmental/EMC test standards
Knowledge of MathWorks MATLAB/Simulink
Knowledge of requirements management tools (preferred IBM Rational DOORS)
Knowledge of system safety concepts and reliability assessment (PSSA, SSA, FMECA, FTA, etc.)
Knowledge of Microsoft Projects and Project Management Terminology
Ability to lead and motivate the team
Ability to work under pressure
Ability to negotiate the priorities with other company departments
Ability to adopt the proper communication attitude to be effective depending on the audience and context, within the technical team, with respect other company departments and top management, towards the customer
Systematic and organized to manage project documentation and to keep track and archive every minute information generated during the system development
Capable to perform in-depth investigation of system failures or anomalies adopting a multidisciplinary attitude
Knowledge of English language (at least intermediate level)

Preferred Skills

Knowledge of reliability prediction standards (preferred MIL-HDBK-217F)
Knowledge of model based design

Candidates must be eligible to obtain UK security clearances Hopefully this will focus the responses better.

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Teamwork: It is a common effort – Communication, openness and sharing of the objectives are the keys of success. Employees’ interests are Company’s interests and Company’s interests are Employees’ interests.

Target oriented: We take things seriously – We treat problems as jewels and understand that the only way to successful growth is by solving problems. We have a lot of passion, and we have the right amount of “Crazy”: we don’t stop until we hit the target. Always!

Technology: Devoted to Innovation”– We are focused on developing technology to create innovation, with a clear path from research and development to products for the marketplace. The purpose of innovation is for better products in the eyes of our customers.

Customer Satisfaction: We want to solve our customers’ problems – It is always OUR problem: we do not care if it is our issue or our customers’ issue, we want to make them happy by providing the right solution.

Loyalty & Integrity: Whatever you do, do it right – Doing the right thing requires honesty and truthfulness in all of our corporate and individual actions. We employ professionals who can always be counted on to do the right thing wherever they are.

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