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Job Title: Sub-System Design Engineer
Location: Bristol
Pay Range/details: Up to £57,000 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Omega is now supporting this world-leading weapons systems designer, developer, and manufacturer, searching for a Sub-System Design Engineer to join them in this exciting period of growth and transformation, with innovation at the heart of their operations. Founded in 2001, after the merger of four key, global weapons manufacturers joining forces and having backing from three of the world's most well recognised and successful brands within the industry, they have gone on to become a well-respected business joining forces with various government organisations globally to enable armed forces across Land, Air, and Sea. They offer a catalogue of various systems and solutions, all in active use within operations worldwide, and are always developing new programs and solutions to drive reliability, excellence, and experience for their customers.
Key Responsibilities – Sub-System Design Engineer
- Liaise with various technical, design, safety, and customer support partners, as well as supporting and agreeing changes in the sub-system interface specifications.
- Provide information and tools that are needed to perform missions to the Command Control Product Team.
- Provide support to integration and testing teams in capturing test requirements and plans.
- Liaise with systems teams, to ensure design proposals are considering existing design constraints.
- Supporting safety, security, and reliability aspects of projects.
Qualifications & Requirements – Sub-System Design Engineer
- Applicable experience in systems engineering, product development, software development or a similar discipline.
- Authoring sub-system software and hardware requirements specifications.
- Developing and proposing changes to sub-system software design.
- Authoring sub-system design documentation.
- Developing test specifications and verification plans for sub-system requirements.
- Managing traceability of requirements, test definitions and certification evidence.
- Verification and certification of the sub-system.
What we can offer – Sub-System Design Engineer
- Company bonus (based on company performance).
- Pension of maximum total contribution of up to 14%.
- Annual salary review.
- Paid overtime.
- 25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase).
- Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking and more.
- Mainly office-based with potential for part of the role to be performed from home.
- gain experience in a number of roles, such as requirements management, design definition and proving.
For more information on this role, please contact Michael Farrell on or send a copy of your CV to
Candidates who are currently a Sub-System Design Engineer, Design Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer, Senior Design Engineer, CAD Engineer, may be suitable for this position.
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