Senior System Engineer

SUMMARY:
The purpose of the Senior Systems Engineer is to take overall systems engineering responsibility for all the organisational elements during pre-construction, construction and
commissioning, reporting to the System Engineering Manager. This involves both personal systems engineering responsibilities as well as coordination of systems engineering performed by multiple engineers across various elements.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all systems engineering elements of design and development through to integration, test & verification.
• Co-ordinate all the systems engineering activities and interfaces across all elements, ensuring compliance with requirements.
• Lead the definition of architectures and solutions derived from vague or abstract requirements.
• Responsible for the baselines and design configuration of the organisation responsible elements, including leading and managing engineering changes to the baselines.
• Provide "field engineering" services for telescopes and sub-systems to aid in fault diagnostics and rectification
• Review and integrate multiple activity reports into system-level analysis and reports to ensure the quality and integrity of results and recommendations within uncertain contexts.
• Coach or mentor up to 5 young engineers in the field of engineering specifically systems engineering.
• Use experience to employ innovative and unique methods and techniques to improve the efficiency and integrity of the systems engineering outcomes.
• Advance the maturity of systems and products through the application of recognised engineering competence and skills.
• Provide systems engineering support across multiple domains, teams and on multiple products, subsystems and systems.
• Contribute to and advance- organisational maturity through leading the development and implementation of engineering processes within his/her realm of responsibility.
• Contribute to strategic leadership within Programme(s) and the organisation through experience-based inputs and conceptual/ strategic thinking.

• B.Tech (Eng) with 13+ years RELEVANT experience; OR
• B.Eng/B.Sc (Eng) with 9+ years RELEVANT experience; OR
• M.Eng/M.Sc (Eng) with 7+ years RELEVANT experience; OR
• PhD/D.Eng with 5+ years RELEVANT experience.
• Meet the requirements for registration with ECSA as PrEng.

• Systems Engineering and development of Radio Astronomy Telescopes.
• General advanced applied Systems Engineering
• Integration, testing and verification of radio astronomy telescopes
• Baseline establishment and management, specifically leading design reviews.
• Engineering Change Control
• RF for radio astronomy product development
• Use of Computer-aided Systems Engineering Tools (e.g. CORE)
• Development of systems engineering processes and procedures
• Coaching and mentoring

• In-depth knowledge of Telescope requirements.
• In depth knowledge of the Telescope Dish element design & performance.
• Acknowledged in-depth competence in systems engineering, technology and/or software.
• Configuration management and configuration management systems
• Systems Engineering Standards, e.g. ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 & 15289,
• Knowledge of the PFMA and related procurement regulations