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The role offers a blend of hybrid home and onsite working from any of our Bristol, Basildon, Luton or Southampton sites. The role is within the Integrated Sensing and Protection (ISP) business area. The role will entail dealing with multiple internal and external clients on a project by project basis to develop and deliver world class concept and system designs.\nWe are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join the engineering team to cover an exciting and growing large scale military and commercial satellite communications development project. This role will involve being part of an exciting programme, working to deliver key technologies for the future. Working within a multi-disciplined team, you will be responsible for developing requirements, Matlab modelling and contributing to the RF design analysis, integration and test phase. The role will include reviewing, assessing and providing technical guidance throughout the engineering design process.\nWHAT YOU’LL GET\nFlexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options\nCustom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite\nFlexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.\nNetwork groups : To support our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion, we have a range of network groups for colleagues :o Carers (employees caring for family or friends)o Enable (supporting people with disabilities)o Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)o Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)o Ethnicity Inclusion (developing a more ethnically based workforce)o Wellbeing (promoting & supporting employee wellbeing)\nTraining : Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses\nContinuous Learning : You will be supported in your ongoing professional development through training and mentoring\nInvestors in People : We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Silver Award\nEmployee Assistance Programme : Providing free and confidential mental health support\nAnnual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 8 flexi days\nTo find out about all of our Company benefits please visit: https://uk.leonardocompany.com/en/people-careers/life-at-leonardo/company-benefits\nReporting to the Project Engineering Lead, the Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for:\nSupporting early systems engineering analysis including requirement derivation.\nDevelopment of modelling codes (Matlab) for specific RF technical analysis.\nEngagement in engineering technical meetings and suppliers.\nBeing a key team member contributing to the RF and system design as well as the test and integration activities.\nAssessment of the design integrity of the design prior to formal design reviews.\nWorking across the full engineering lifecycle.\nManaging all levels of requirements to enable design and development decisions.\nInfluencing requirements and design decisions\nReporting to key project stakeholders.\nActively supporting knowledge sharing and exploitation of best practice.\nProducing effective, accurate and concise technical reports and analysis to support key technical decisions for the programme.\nEstablishing and maintaining good lines of communication across the Engineering IPT and upwards to the IPT lead and Engineering Leadership\nDelivering to agreed performance targets\nSupporting the teams working in an Agile manner.\nYou must be eligible for full security clearance. 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