Senior System Engineer (Re-advert) at SARAO - South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

Key Responsibilities:

• Implementing ICDs, physically assembling items.
• Preparing & executing Verification Plans, Test instructions, ATPs & QTPs, ATRs & QTRs
• Establishing baselines (DBL, QBL, OsBL)
• Defining, analysing & managing requirements.
• Establishing and maintaining traceability.
• Developing system and sub-system design-to specifications
• Functional & physical architecting, analysis and synthesis.
• Identifying and creating ICDs
• Executing performance analysis
• Executing FMECA and implementing safety in design
• Generating performance specifications, build-to, and maintain-to specifications.
• Maintaining the PBSs in ALIM
• Root cause analysis and problem solving,
• Design modifications to eliminate failure modes
• Compiling Project SEMPs, technical schedules, WBS & SOWs.
• Defining baselines & performing design reviews
• Revising engineering processes

Key Requirements:

Qualification:

• B.Tech (Eng) with 13+ years of relevant experience OR
• B.Eng/B.Sc (Eng) with 9+ years of relevant experience OR
• M.Eng with 7+ years of relevant experience OR
• PhD/D.Eng with 5+ years of relevant experience

Experience:

• Physical, hands-on integration, testing and evaluation of electronic and mechanical systems.
• Undertaking engineering activities throughout all lifecycle phases of the system under development, with particular focus on the
• concurrent engineering aspects and the design for supportability aspects.
• Leading engineering tasks and analysis without supervision, employing academic and practical knowledge gained on the job.
• Functioning simultaneously across multiple domains, teams and on multiple systems.
• Leading the development and implementation of engineering processes.
• Using advanced interpersonal skills in order to influence change in complex systems behaviour and operational environments.
• Coaching and mentoring in engineering, particularly systems engineering.

Knowledge:

• Advanced applied Systems Engineering.
• Integration, test and verification of complex systems.
• Baseline establishment and management.
• Engineering Change control.
• Hi-tech product development.
• Model-based Systems Engineering
• Development of systems engineering processes and procedures.
• Configuration management