Systems Engineering Manager

About the position

• Key Responsibilities:
• Leading and advising the technical team on the execution of the engineering Design, Assembly, Integration and Verification activities.
• Performing Engineering & Contract Management to deliver the contacts on time and on brief through thorough planning
  and diligent management.
• Managing technical risks through identifying, categorising, monitoring and implementing mitigation actions.
• Converting stakeholder needs and requirements into physical engineered systems that perform according to expectations through
  functional & physical architecting, analysis and synthesis.
• Identifying, defining, implementing and verifying Interfaces and their associated ICDs.
• Ensuring the delivered systems meet the stakeholder's needs by maintaining traceability of requirements throughout the design
  evolution and managing baselines (DBL, QBL, PBL, OsBL) and the reviews thereof.
• Integrating and delivering systems with verified performance and quality through preparing & overseeing the execution of
  verification activities according to verification plans (ATPs/QTPs, ATRs/QTRs) and setting to work of the products and products
  systems.
• To ensure the delivered systems continue to operate and deliver the expected performance through root cause analysis and problem
  solving and managing the implementation of design modifications to eliminate failure modes.
• To ensure continued improvement in knowledge growth, retention and management by ensuring that project SEMPs, QAPs, ILSPs,
  technical schedules, WBS & SOWs are implemented and maintained and continuous mentoring & coaching of SE resources.

Knowledge:
Internationally recognised for advanced applied Systems Engineering.
Assembly, integration, test and verification of complex systems.
Baseline establishment and management.
Engineering change control.
Hi-tech product development.
Model-based Systems Engineering
Development of Systems Engineering processes and procedures.
Configuration management of systems under development, in production and in service.

Additional Notes:
Candidates with experience in engineering for radio astronomy or space applications are preferred.
Candidates who also have operational support / field engineering experience will have an advantage.

Desired Skills:

• Internationally recognised for advanced applied Systems Engineering
• Engineering change control
• Development of Systems Engineering processes and procedures

Desired Work Experience:

• 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

• Degree

About The Employer:

- Qualification:
* B.Eng/B.Sc (Eng) (NQF 8) with 13+ years RELEVANT Experience; or
* [URL Removed] (NQF 9) with 10+ years RELEVANT Experience; or
* PhD/D.Eng (NQF 10) with 7+ years RELEVANT Experience.
* Meets the requirements for registration with ECSA as PrEng
Experience:
* Leading engineering teams, tasks and analysis while employing theoretical and practical knowledge gained on the job.
* Proven experience in physical, hands-on integration, testing and evaluation of complicated systems which include RF, digital,
electronic and mechanical elements combined with fixed infrastructure.
* Leading the development and implementation of engineering processes.
* Using advanced interpersonal skills in order to influence change in complex systems behaviour and operational environments.
* Undertaking engineering activities throughout all lifecycle phases of systems under development, with particular focus on the
concurrent engineering aspects and the design for supportability aspects.
* Functioning simultaneously across multiple domains, teams and on multiple systems.
* Coaching and mentoring in engineering, particularly systems engineering.