Job Description
Systems Engineering Lead
Job Description
The Systems Engineering Lead will guide a small team of junior engineers working in a
dockyard environment, supporting facilities engineering and major infrastructure
projects. This role may include but is not limited to: providing hands-on coaching,
technical oversight and leadership to ensure projects are properly scoped and delivered
using sound systems thinking principles, facilitating stakeholder workshops, helping
shape pragmatic approaches to complex and real-world infrastructure problems,
ensuring the team is delivering clear value through practical execution across the
lifecycle of projects.
We are looking to expand our Systems and Project Engineering capability, specifically in
the leadeship level and are keen to hear from you if you feel you’re ready to take the next
step in your career.
Work Experience
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead a small team of junior and graduate systems engineers, providing
mentoring, coaching and support in their development.
• Apply and promote practical systems thinking in support of infrastructure and
facilities maintenance projects
• Ensure project scoping, requirements capture and problem definition are done
effectively and collaboratively
• Act as the primary systems engineering interface with the customer for complex
Projects
• Review and guide the development of technical documentation including
requirement sets, interface definitions, V&V plans and logical architectures.
• Support the integration of systems engineering with wider project
engineering, design and assurance processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of systems engineering methods, tools
and templates.
Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related
discipline; Master’s degree or working towards Chartered Engineer (CEng) status
preferred.
• Typically 5+ years of relevant systems engineering experience in a highly
regulated industry (e.g., aerospace, nuclear, maritime, infrastructure, oil and
gas etc. ).
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, including requirements
management, system architecture, integration and verification and validation.
• Confident communicator with experience leading meetings and working directly
with customers or stakeholders. Ability to engage with senior stakeholders,
technical teams and cross-functional groups to align systems
engineering practices with business objectives.
• Experience coaching or mentoring junior engineers or team members.
• Experience in applying systems thinking in environments with legacy systems,
real-world constraints and evolving problem sets.
• Experience in defining developing, and maturing systems engineering capabilities. Including tools, processes and methodologies.
Desirable Attributes:
• Exposure to systems engineering frameworks such as INCOSE SE Handbook or
relevant Defence Standards
• Experience with Systems Modelling tools (E.g. MBSE, SysML etc.) even at a
conceptual or high-level
• Experience with IBM DOORs
• Experience aligning systems engineering with BIM or digital twin frameworks
• Familiarity with asset management, maintenance planning or operational
systems support
About us
Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s
fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized
expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old
company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and
humility.
We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to
make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology
and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted
partner for Fortune 500 customers.
As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really
engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work
and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when
you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.
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