Systems IVV Consultant

Our client, a prestigious company in the defence sector, is currently seeking a Systems IVV Consultant for a contract role. This opportunity targets proficient professionals who can play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality systems engineering solutions and managing complex projects.

• Represent the Systems discipline as a senior member, owning the assigned work packages and tasking to deliver obligations and commitments to agreed processes, plans, quality, schedule, and budget.
• Support the Systems Lead and Engineering Project Lead (EPL) in executing project engineering obligations within agreed plans, budget, and schedule.
• Develop technical solutions to large and complex engineering problems using Systems Engineering practices, principles, and processes to meet customer requirements.
• Quantify and implement technical and management processes to achieve desired solutions, delivering Systems Engineering IVV artefacts across the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical direction and influence across numerous project work packages, ensuring optimal approaches, architecture, design, and implementation choices.
• Collaborate closely with system, hardware, firmware, and software architects to ensure consistency, modularity, reuse, and technical excellence.
• Plan, coordinate, and present conclusive design reviews to senior management and customers, ensuring clarity and quality for successful events.
• Lead, manage, and report on Systems aspects of project work packages, balancing requirements, solutions, schedules, and costs.
• Manage customers and external suppliers to define and achieve expectations and objectives.
• Ensure and review technical/task proposals, providing accurate estimates for effort, costs, and risks for bids and proposals leading to contract awards.
• Work closely with other discipline leads, project management, and engineering project leads to create cost-effective and high-margin proposals.
• Review and sign off significant technical documents, supporting the technical review chair as needed.
• Manage information security as specified in the Security manual to comply with Government regulations.

• Experience in Systems Engineering, particularly within IVV (Integration, Verification, and Validation)
• Strong technical leadership and project management skills
• Proficiency in developing technical solutions for complex engineering problems
• Capability to influence various project work packages
• Excellent collaboration skills with system, hardware, firmware, and software architects
• Ability to plan and present thorough design reviews
• Understanding of managing customers and external supplier relationships
• Knowledge of creating, reviewing, and approving technical and task proposals
• Adherence to information security regulations and standards

If you have the relevant skills and experience in Systems Engineering IVV and are looking for a challenging contract role within the defence sector, we encourage you to apply now.