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L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title – Systems Engineer

Job Location – Portchester, UK

Job ID –18019

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Portchester are the maritime industry’s autonomy partner of choice, we are powering the Royal Navy’s adoption of autonomous surface vehicle technology as well as delivering autonomous capability to UK ports, harbours and offshore energy service providers. We have delivered more than 100 autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) systems.

A few of our employee benefits are:

Flexi Time Working Policy – Up to 3 days off per month 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days Private medical insurance with optional family coverPension scheme of up to 7% employer contributionLife Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x) Group income protectionFlexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work schemeEmployee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

Capturing and managing internal and external customer requirements.Coordinating and working with cross-functional teams to develop and define system architectures and interfaces.Planning, coordinating and/or carrying-out integration, commissioning, verification, validation and qualification activities.Negotiating acceptance of project deliverables or products with internal or external customers.Identifying, collating and reporting programme and technical risks to the relevant stakeholders.Participating in, and where appropriate chairing, project gate reviews to determine pass/fail criteria on milestones throughout the engineering lifecycle.Interacting with the wider L3Harris engineering teams both in the UK and worldwide, to develop optimal solutions to meet both engineering requirements and business needs.Providing technical support to Sales and Business Development activities including solution development, risk identification and task estimation.Promoting a Systems Engineering approach across the business including, but not limited to, requirement driven design, effective configuration management and both security and safety by default and by designContribute to the quality assurance of technical deliverables through enhancements to processes and procedures, assist in the promulgation of these, undertake technical investigations and audit compliance where required throughout the engineering lifecycle.

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in a STEM subjectMinimum of 4-5 years’ experience and understanding of the v-lifecycle processExperience and knowledge in Requirements and Integration Verification and Validation (IVV)Understands the characteristics of good quality requirements, elicitation methods and toolsGood understanding of requirements engineeringBroad knowledge of Systems Design methodologiesAble to understand detail and a low level of fidelity in technical decision makingExcellent IT skills (JIRA and Confluence would be beneficial)

Important to know

Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK.

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

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