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The Systems Engineering Lead will guide a small team of junior engineers working in a dockyard environment, supporting facilities engineering and major infrastructure projects. This role may include but is not limited to: providing hands-on coaching, technical oversight and leadership to ensure projects are properly scoped and delivered using sound systems thinking principles, facilitating stakeholder workshops, helping shape pragmatic approaches to complex and real-world infrastructure problems, ensuring the team is delivering clear value through practical execution across the lifecycle of projects.
We are looking to expand our Systems and Project Engineering capability, specifically in the leadeship level and are keen to hear from you if you feel youre ready to take the next step in your career.
You must be a UK National and qualify for Security Clearance.
Work Experience
Key Responsibilities:
Lead a small team of junior and graduate systems engineers, providing mentoring, coaching and support in their development.
Apply and promote practical systems thinking in support of infrastructure and facilities maintenance projects
Ensure project scoping, requirements capture and problem definition are done effectively and collaboratively
Act as the primary systems engineering interface with the customer for complex projects
Review and guide the development of technical documentation including requirement sets, interface definitions, V&V plans and logical architectures.
Support the integration of systems engineering with wider project engineering, design and assurance processes.
Contribute to continuous improvement of systems engineering methods, tools and templates.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelors degree (minimum) in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline; Masters degree or working towards Chartered Engineer (CEng) status preferred.
Typically 5+ years of relevant systems engineering experience in a highly regulated industry (e.g., aerospace, nuclear, maritime, infrastructure, oil and gas etc. ).
Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, including requirements management, system architecture, integration and verification and validation.
Confident communicator with experience leading meetings and working directly with customers or stakeholders. Ability to engage with senior stakeholders, technical teams and cross-functional groups to align systems engineering practices with business objectives.
Experience coaching or mentoring junior engineers or team members.
Experience in applying systems thinking in environments with legacy systems, real-world constraints and evolving problem sets.
Experience in defining developing, and maturing systems engineering capabilities. Including tools, processes and methodologies.
Desirable Attributes:
Exposure to systems engineering frameworks such as INCOSE SE Handbook or relevant Defence Standards
Experience with Systems Modelling tools (E.g. MBSE, SysML etc.) even at a conceptual or high-level
Experience with IBM DOORs
Experience aligning systems engineering with BIM or digital twin frameworks
Familiarity with asset management, maintenance planning or operational systems support
About us
Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the worlds fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.
We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.
As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then were eager to hear from you.
