Equipment Design Authority

Job Title: Equipment Design Authority
Location: Bristol
Salary: £49,000 - £65,000 (depending on experience)
 
The Opportunity
Are you a Systems Engineer with design leadership experience, looking for a new challenge in an innovative and high-stakes environment? We are seeking an Equipment Design Authority to join a dynamic team in Bristol. In this key role, you will take the lead in the design, development, and validation of critical hardware and software systems for cutting-edge defence technology projects.
As the Equipment Design Authority, you will oversee the technical development, certification sign-off, and in-service support for a key component of complex missile systems. This involves close collaboration with multiple engineering disciplines, including systems engineering, software engineering, electronics, and mechanical engineering, ensuring that both hardware and software designs are robust, validated, and in line with customer requirements.
You will drive the design and build of these systems, ensuring that every technical aspect meets the required standards and is successfully validated for deployment. This role also offers the opportunity to develop your leadership skills and grow within a highly skilled team.

What You'll Do

• Design Leadership: Lead the design and development of a complex electronics subsystem, ensuring alignment with system requirements and standards.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Manage technical risks and opportunities through the product development lifecycle.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain strong relationships with product design stakeholders to ensure design goals are met.
• Systems Engineering Expertise: Apply your systems engineering expertise to ensure integration of hardware and software components.
• Requirements Engineering: Support system, subsystem, and component-level requirements engineering to enable the successful evolution of the product design.
• Validation & Testing: Lead the validation of test procedures and ensure products meet the necessary certification requirements.

What We're Looking For
If you have experience in the following areas, we’d love to hear from you:

• Proven design leadership within complex electronics systems.
• Experience in hardware and software design for computer-based electronics equipment.
• Ability to manage technical risks and opportunities effectively.
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering principles, processes, and practices.
• Experience in requirements engineering at various system levels (System, Subsystem, Component).
• A passion for validation and testing processes to ensure product certification.

What’s on Offer

• Flexible Working: 3-4 days per week on-site to suit workload classification.
• Bonus: Up to £2,500 based on company performance.
• Pension: Total contributions (employer + employee) up to 14%.
• Overtime: Paid overtime opportunities.
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days off.
• Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity, neonatal, and fertility leave.
• Site Facilities: Subsidised meals, free parking, and more.

Keywords
Systems Engineering, Electronics Design, Hardware and Software Development, Design Leadership, Validation and Testing, Product Development, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Requirements Engineering, Subsystem Design, Certification, Technical Leadership, Bristol Jobs, Engineering Jobs, Defence Engineering, Systems Integration, Missile Systems.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don’t hear from us within 7 working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are, of course, free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria may also be required to undergo security clearance vetting to SC level.

This is a permanent position.