107 Systems Engineering jobs in the United Kingdom

Copello have partnered with an established defence engineering business in the recruitment of an experienced Systems Engineering Manager  to lead the delivery of complex MBSE solutions on a high-profile defence programme.

You'll be at the forefront of systems modelling and architecture development, working closely with key stakeholders across government and industry.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• p>Lead and manage the delivery of architecture and modelling artefacts across the whole programme

• Embed cost, schedule, and availability goals into the whole boat model

• Collaborate with stakeholders from government and industry

• Champion team development and support the long-term growth of the systems engineering function

• Guide the implementation of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches across the programme

• Manage and motivate a team of engineers, overseeing both internal staff and external suppliers

Your Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• BSc in Engineering or equivalent STEM discipline

• Proven leadership experience in technical environments

• Strong background in systems and model-based systems engineering

• Experience engaging with both customers and suppliers

For more information, please get in touch with Daryl.

Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where your technical expertise is valued and your creative input is encouraged?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you with our Global leading Defence Maritime client!

As a Systems Engineering Manager , you will play a vital role in ensuring the engineering function delivers expert input across project bids and development life cycles. You'll lead a team of talented engineers and shape the future of complex electronic and embedded systems that support national defence and maritime safety.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical direction to a team of System Engineers.
• Allocate and manage engineering tasks across multiple projects.
• Develop and deliver Systems Engineering artefacts throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Drive improvements in systems design tools, processes, and capabilities.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and firmware teams to ensure integrated and modular design approaches.
• Present confidently at internal and external design reviews, including to senior stakeholders and customers.
• Actively contribute to and lead aspects of complex projects to balance technical requirements with cost and schedule goals.
• Work with customers and suppliers to ensure alignment with project objectives and processes.
• Generate technical proposals and provide accurate estimates of cost, effort, and risk.
• Chair and contribute to technical reviews, and approve high-quality documentation.
• Ensure compliance with information security standards and government regulations.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience applying Systems Engineering to complex, multidisciplinary engineering programmes.
• Strong background in developing system requirements and compliant systems design.
• Skilled in creating and reviewing high-quality technical documentation.
• Experience using tools such as JAMA and contributing to embedded hardware, software, or firmware development .
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.
• Experience in defence or similarly regulated industries is advantageous.

Technical Focus Areas:

• Requirements Definition & Management
• Systems Architecture & Design
• Design for 'x' (manufacturability, testability, etc.)
• System Integration & Interfaces
• Verification & Validation

Qualifications:

• A degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or a Science-based discipline - or equivalent industry experience.

Why Join Us?

You'll be part of a passionate team delivering real-world impact. We foster a supportive and innovative environment where your input directly shapes mission-critical systems. You'll have opportunities to grow your career while working on cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative and inclusive culture.

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

Job Description

• Provision of engineering leadership and management of concurrent engineering to ensure that assigned projects and tasking are delivered to scope, cost and schedule.
• Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes in accordance with business, management and technical processes.
• Lead all project engineering activities and the team, aligned to ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 processes, defining and continuous implementation of a systems approach.
• Effectively delegate responsibilities, monitoring and managing progress to achieve the scope of the engineering to satisfaction of the budget, schedule and governance stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale.
• Leads, defines, delegates and monitors the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed cross the multi-discipline project team
• Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team, Supports the Program Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.
• Proactively working with wider business stakeholders, especially governance, to ensure processes are followed/tailored agreements are implemented upon and maintained.
• Continuous realisation of resource and dependency needs to permit upskills, supply and recruitment; working with the discipline leads to ensure that resource/capability requirements are agreed; provides input to longer term recruitment/supply strategy (skills and/or tooling gap identification etc.); adapts to manage resource problems on project to achieve budgets.
• Ensures that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; seamlessly identifies and implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; strives to beat schedule and improve margin.
• Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule.
• Coordinates all engineering resources on the project; delegation of day-today tasking.
• Provides any input required for business and customer reporting; proposes improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represents the company on their project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Effectively resolves any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities); optimises business needs across all functions.
• Not necessarily a technical expert, but sufficiently knowledgeable of the Systems Engineering life cycle and sufficiently technically competent to manage technical teams to completion of work packages.

To deliver the required value and contribute towards the growth of the business a suitable candidate for this role shall have:

• Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, V and numerous development models (Iterative, Incremental etc)
• Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team of a minimum of 10 multi-discipline engineers.
• Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems.
• Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities
• Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition.
• Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence.
• Experience engineering lifecycle tools and their use to manage the work, configuration management, traceability and support the generation of metrics.
• Excellent, multi method and tool, Customer/Stakeholder engagement skills and communication techniques
• Experienced in creating work breakdown structure, with a value basis, where the realisation of the required artefacts achieves internal process and external contract commitments.
• Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative.
• Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all Life Cycle phases across one or more assigned projects.
• Hands-on expertise in a number of the following areas: Command & Control Defence systems, sensors, communications, encryption, land/maritime/airborne capability
• Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry.

Additional Role requirements

• Significant on-site presence to support classification of work and maximise team contribution
• Holding SC and willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance.

Copello have partnered with an established defence engineering business in the recruitment of an experienced Systems Engineering Manager  to lead the delivery of complex MBSE solutions on a high-profile defence programme.

You'll be at the forefront of systems modelling and architecture development, working closely with key stakeholders across government and industry.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• p>Lead and manage the delivery of architecture and modelling artefacts across the whole programme

• Embed cost, schedule, and availability goals into the whole boat model

• Collaborate with stakeholders from government and industry

• Champion team development and support the long-term growth of the systems engineering function

• Guide the implementation of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches across the programme

• Manage and motivate a team of engineers, overseeing both internal staff and external suppliers

Your Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• BSc in Engineering or equivalent STEM discipline

• Proven leadership experience in technical environments

• Strong background in systems and model-based systems engineering

• Experience engaging with both customers and suppliers

For more information, please get in touch with Daryl.

Copello have partnered with an established defence engineering business in the recruitment of an experienced Systems Engineering Manager  to lead the delivery of complex MBSE solutions on a high-profile defence programme.

You'll be at the forefront of systems modelling and architecture development, working closely with key stakeholders across government and industry.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• p>Lead and manage the delivery of architecture and modelling artefacts across the whole programme

• Embed cost, schedule, and availability goals into the whole boat model

• Collaborate with stakeholders from government and industry

• Champion team development and support the long-term growth of the systems engineering function

• Guide the implementation of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches across the programme

• Manage and motivate a team of engineers, overseeing both internal staff and external suppliers

Your Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• BSc in Engineering or equivalent STEM discipline

• Proven leadership experience in technical environments

• Strong background in systems and model-based systems engineering

• Experience engaging with both customers and suppliers

For more information, please get in touch with Daryl.

Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where your technical expertise is valued and your creative input is encouraged?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you with our Global leading Defence Maritime client!

As a Systems Engineering Manager , you will play a vital role in ensuring the engineering function delivers expert input across project bids and development life cycles. You'll lead a team of talented engineers and shape the future of complex electronic and embedded systems that support national defence and maritime safety.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical direction to a team of System Engineers.
• Allocate and manage engineering tasks across multiple projects.
• Develop and deliver Systems Engineering artefacts throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Drive improvements in systems design tools, processes, and capabilities.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and firmware teams to ensure integrated and modular design approaches.
• Present confidently at internal and external design reviews, including to senior stakeholders and customers.
• Actively contribute to and lead aspects of complex projects to balance technical requirements with cost and schedule goals.
• Work with customers and suppliers to ensure alignment with project objectives and processes.
• Generate technical proposals and provide accurate estimates of cost, effort, and risk.
• Chair and contribute to technical reviews, and approve high-quality documentation.
• Ensure compliance with information security standards and government regulations.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience applying Systems Engineering to complex, multidisciplinary engineering programmes.
• Strong background in developing system requirements and compliant systems design.
• Skilled in creating and reviewing high-quality technical documentation.
• Experience using tools such as JAMA and contributing to embedded hardware, software, or firmware development .
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.
• Experience in defence or similarly regulated industries is advantageous.

Technical Focus Areas:

• Requirements Definition & Management
• Systems Architecture & Design
• Design for 'x' (manufacturability, testability, etc.)
• System Integration & Interfaces
• Verification & Validation

Qualifications:

• A degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or a Science-based discipline - or equivalent industry experience.

Why Join Us?

You'll be part of a passionate team delivering real-world impact. We foster a supportive and innovative environment where your input directly shapes mission-critical systems. You'll have opportunities to grow your career while working on cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative and inclusive culture.

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

Job Description

• Provision of engineering leadership and management of concurrent engineering to ensure that assigned projects and tasking are delivered to scope, cost and schedule.
• Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes in accordance with business, management and technical processes.
• Lead all project engineering activities and the team, aligned to ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 processes, defining and continuous implementation of a systems approach.
• Effectively delegate responsibilities, monitoring and managing progress to achieve the scope of the engineering to satisfaction of the budget, schedule and governance stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale.
• Leads, defines, delegates and monitors the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed cross the multi-discipline project team
• Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team, Supports the Program Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.
• Proactively working with wider business stakeholders, especially governance, to ensure processes are followed/tailored agreements are implemented upon and maintained.
• Continuous realisation of resource and dependency needs to permit upskills, supply and recruitment; working with the discipline leads to ensure that resource/capability requirements are agreed; provides input to longer term recruitment/supply strategy (skills and/or tooling gap identification etc.); adapts to manage resource problems on project to achieve budgets.
• Ensures that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; seamlessly identifies and implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; strives to beat schedule and improve margin.
• Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule.
• Coordinates all engineering resources on the project; delegation of day-today tasking.
• Provides any input required for business and customer reporting; proposes improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represents the company on their project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Effectively resolves any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities); optimises business needs across all functions.
• Not necessarily a technical expert, but sufficiently knowledgeable of the Systems Engineering life cycle and sufficiently technically competent to manage technical teams to completion of work packages.

To deliver the required value and contribute towards the growth of the business a suitable candidate for this role shall have:

• Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, V and numerous development models (Iterative, Incremental etc)
• Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team of a minimum of 10 multi-discipline engineers.
• Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems.
• Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities
• Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition.
• Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence.
• Experience engineering lifecycle tools and their use to manage the work, configuration management, traceability and support the generation of metrics.
• Excellent, multi method and tool, Customer/Stakeholder engagement skills and communication techniques
• Experienced in creating work breakdown structure, with a value basis, where the realisation of the required artefacts achieves internal process and external contract commitments.
• Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative.
• Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all Life Cycle phases across one or more assigned projects.
• Hands-on expertise in a number of the following areas: Command & Control Defence systems, sensors, communications, encryption, land/maritime/airborne capability
• Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry.

Additional Role requirements

• Significant on-site presence to support classification of work and maximise team contribution
• Holding SC and willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance.