Requirements Engineer

Job Description

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Air Traffic Management, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Requirements Engineer

Location: Belfast

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Land and Air Systems (LAS) Air Operation and Weapons (AOW) business unit as Requirements Engineer.

Due to expansion we are recruiting for a Requirements Engineer who can undertake both front-end lifecycle System Requirements & Design tasks, but who is equally capable of undertaking back-end Integration, Verification and Validation activities. With the opportunity to work across multiple projects at varies stages of the lifecycle including new and existing projects this is truly a varied role.

Key responsibilities and tasks:

As part of a large Systems Engineering department the Requirements Engineer will be responsible for a wide range of systems engineering across Air Operations, Systems and Services.

Tasks will include:

• Requirements capture & management: Capture Customer & End user needs and distil into functional and non-functional requirements
• Manage the derivation & flow-down of lower-level (Subsystem / component) Requirements.
• Responsible for Requirement Management Planning and tools
• Support the requirement improvement, validation and verification work.
• Participate in team decision-making and provide support and collaboration for the team
• Manage project requirements /Conduct peer reviews of requirements specifications
• DOORS tool administrative tasks / Manage project metrics
• Support to engineering team on projects
• Support IVVQ tasks on projects

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Good working knowledge of DOORS and how this tool is used to capture verification, qualification and acceptance data & requirements management
• Working knowledge of Design tools (e.g. Rhapsody)
• Working knowledge of test tools (esp. automated test tools) and test data generation techniques.
• To be competent in the use of Microsoft Office
• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience
• Excellent communications skills, both verbally and written
• An understanding of System Engineering and System Engineering Processes and Practices, including knowledge of Systems Lifecycles
• An ability to work with combinations of technologies, to integrate and verify them in a logical and structured way into a system in order to fully satisfy a Customer’s requirement
• PC Literate: Windows, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
• Experience of requirements capture and management (e.g. in DOORS), or experience of system architectural modelling or simulation (e.g. in MatLab or Simulink) is preferred but not essential

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