Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Primary Purpose of the Role:

The primary purpose of this role is to support and carry out all aspects of the visual system engineering activities. The role will require liaison with project management, project system engineering managers, and will include visual systems engineering activities contributing to the delivery of the system on site.

Key responsibilities and tasks:

• Integration, test, and validation of visual system image generator hardware, software and databases.
• Integration, test, and validation of the visual system with the simulator/simulation systems (host, display etc.).
• Application of Chorus 2.0 processes and practises to visual system development tasks, as appropriate.
• Adherence to tasks assignments, allocated budgets and schedule milestones
• Plan, schedule and report suite of work packages to deliver solution
• Ensure systems engineering process is followed throughout life-cycle
• Ensure specified deliverables are met against schedule and timescale and are of an expected level of quality.
• Requirements management
• Management of reviews
• Strong customer focus
• Sub-contractor management
• Managing outsourced work
• Fault closure coordination

Skills and Experience Required

Essential

• Ability to analyse customer requirements and negotiate requirement/solution trade-offs to achieve a winning compromise between cost, schedule, and compliance.
• Ability to identify solution technical issues and risks in order to plan the mitigation strategy and engineering activities required.
• Able to capture and express the solutions architecture through standard methods.
• An effective team player who can interface at all levels across the organisation. Able to operate successfully in a multi-cultural environment, working effectively with teams distributed across different sites/countries.
• Visual systems engineering in simulation environment
• Visual system design and integration
• Real time image generation
• Design life-cycles

Desirable

• Knowledge of aviation
• JIRA
• XML
• Requirements Management

Values & Behaviours:

• Focus on Customers
• Perform through teaming
• Innovation

Qualifications:

• Degree in Engineering, Science or Mathematics

LIFE AS A THALES SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE ROLE

As a Thales Subject Matter Expertise Role, you will ensure the quality of the services and products delivered by your scope thanks to your in-depth knowledge of the field:

Analyse the activities of your scope to ensure resources are used efficiently and help with competency development if necessary
Provide documentation and communication regarding specialized organizational processes
Act as a referent by taking a technical concept and making it easier to understand
Create and edit processes to help perform tasks consistently
Support leadership in aligning company and personal values with a strategic vision
Make recommendations for technology infrastructure, software and equipment
Assist in sales growth and account management when needed

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