Principal Systems Engineer

Job Description

🔧 Principal Systems Engineer

Join a leading-edge team shaping the future of the UK’s nuclear industry. We're looking for a Principal Systems Engineer with the vision, experience, and technical leadership to deliver complex, safety-critical engineering solutions.

🌟 What You’ll Do:

• 🔬 Apply innovative techniques to develop high-quality, future-ready engineering solutions.
• 🧠 Demonstrate deep expertise across all major engineering disciplines.
• 📈 Lead the development of processes and procedures that drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency.
• 🤝 Lead multi-disciplinary teams in delivering high-complexity engineering projects.
• 📘 Bring proven experience delivering solutions to recognised standards, regulations, or bespoke customer specifications—preferably within highly regulated sectors.
• 🎓 Be on track to achieve Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) status or hold it already. INCOSE ESEP (or equivalent) highly desirable.
• 🔧 Take technical ownership of systems engineering outputs across major projects.
• 🛡️ Monitor and provide strategic advice on emerging health and safety concerns.
• 🎯 Contribute to the definition of technical goals across the business.
• 📚 Interpret and evaluate evolving standards, regulations, and directives, embedding this knowledge into business practices.
• 🛠️ Assess and introduce emerging software tools to enhance delivery and innovation.
• 🔍 Lead investigations into quality issues, implementing corrective actions to drive improvement.
• 📢 Prepare and deliver technical presentations to clients, regulators, or external stakeholders.
• 📑 Define policy, methods, and toolsets for:
• Business, mission, and stakeholder needs
• System requirements and architecture
• System design definition and interfaces
• System analysis and model-based analysis
• Verification and validation of system designs
• 👥 Provide strong technical leadership across multi-discipline teams.
• 🧭 Operate with full autonomy, requiring no formal technical supervision beyond peer review.
• 📊 Lead technical estimating for medium- to high-complexity projects.
• 🔗 Manage interfaces with external project teams, ensuring alignment and quality across all stakeholders.
• 🎤 Present technical content at industry events or client briefings; support business development through relationship-building.
• 📂 Contribute to the development and enhancement of the Integrated Management System (IMS).
• ✅ Help define standards compliance guidelines across projects and teams.

Qualifications

• ✅ Demonstrates substantial experience in delivering engineering solutions in compliance with recognised industry standards, customer-specific codes, or legislative requirements. At least half of this experience should be within highly regulated industries or complex engineering projects.
• 🎓 Ideally holds, or is actively working toward, Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) status or equivalent professional accreditation.
• 🌐 INCOSE ESEP (or equivalent systems engineering certification) is highly desirable.