NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights each year. It provides air traffic control services from two control centres supporting airports all around the UK, as well as a wide range of commercial solutions to over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.
Job Overview:
The System Engineer role within a NATS context applies system engineering principles , knowledge and expertise across the Conception, Specification, Design, Analysis, Integration and Management of complex Air Traffic System Domains and across the scope of our architectures and the full lifecycle of our equipment from initial concepts to end of life. Our systems spread across a spectrum of Surveillance, Navigation, Flight Processing, Communications, Support Information, Traffic Synchronisation and both Civil and Military applications.
System Engineering Duties include:
- Definition and management of system requirements and specifications
- Generation of solution concepts and feasibility studies
- Design and implementation of systems through project phases using appropriate methodologies, waterfall, agile etc.
- Engineering assurance and regulatory compliance
- Planning and managing system integration, verification and validation activities
- Providing technical leadership.
- Coordination of technical outputs across multi-disciplinary teams
- Configuration Management Support the operational acceptance of the system by engineering authorities.
- Support the transition planning and entry of operational systems into service.
- Manage technical risk throughout the lifecycle.
Essential skills & experience:
- The applicant is expected to hold, as a minimum, an HNC (or an equivalent qualification) in an Engineering related discipline plus relevant experience.
- Good acumen for absorbing, communicating and utilising technical knowledge with experience gained from working in a technology delivery environment, preferably within a real time, safety related industry.
- Capable resourceful and confident, with complex technical material and able to support and encourage colleagues throughout the system engineering technical activities.
- Experience of team working within complex technical timebound projects.
Additional information:
We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. In addition to a competitive salary that’s regularly reviewed, you’ll also benefit from a wide range of other benefits which includes generous leave entitlement, a market-leading defined contribution pension scheme, a range of voluntary benefits and retail discounts, wellness support and a comprehensive learning and development offering.
We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. We also welcome discussions on flexible and part-time working arrangements.
If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.
