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Job – Principal Systems Engineer – Naval Comms in Crawley
Location: Crawley, UK
Salary: £45 – £56 Per hour
Job type: Contract
Category: Defence Engineering
Job Reference: 156160KBU
Posted on: 23 Jan 2019
About the Role:
Principal Systems Engineer (Naval Comms)
Location: Crawley
Duration: 6 Months
Rate: £45 – £56 Per Hour LTD Negotiable
We are looking to recruit a Systems Engineer to work for our client on a new Naval Communications project. It will involve working on challenging programmes to bring new technology to a major UK customer base. It will include the design, build, test and trials phases of the programme.
Key responsibilities:
* Prepare system and subsystem specifications and interface control documentation, against rigorous analysis and decomposition of the customer requirements and change requests.
* Provide technical support to the IVVQ team during the system integration and acceptance phase of the programme.
* Conduct of technical investigations into both equipment level and system level anomalies, liaising with software and hardware engineers as required.
* Maintain the design and production baselines through to platform acceptance, including specifications, ICDs, cable data sheets, BOMs and certification documentation liaising with production, the DO and safety engineers as required
* Provide work package estimates that balance quality, compliance and cost – subsequently discharge work packages to time, quality and cost.
Requirements:
* Proven ability of working on naval communications projects.
* Proven ability in deriving and preparing system and sub-system specifications from customer requirements and to ensure that the requirements meet the needs of the customer.
* Ability to work as part of a team to generate a coherent set of specifications, interface documentation and estimates liaising with other functions and departments as required.
* Knowledge and ability with Systems Engineering lifecycle activities including PDR, CDR, PRR and TRR through the design and development phases into production, integration, verification, validation and acceptance.
* Proven ability of working with customers, presenting technical solutions or design reviews as required.
* Knowledge of Naval communications systems, equipment and infrastructure.
* An understanding of Naval HF communications equipment would be desirable.
* An understanding of Naval management architectures would be desirable.
* An understanding of Naval operational communications would be desirable.
* An understanding of Naval installation, commissioning and trials activities would be desirable.
* Willingness to travel to both supplier and customer locations.
LOCATIONS
LAND
23 Jan 19. Lincad, a leading UK developer and manufacturer of batteries, chargers and power management systems for defence, industrial, medical and commercial applications, is doubling the size of its UK Head Office facilities in Surrey. Responding to a consistent growth in demand for its products and expert services, Lincad is significantly increasing the capacity of its research, engineering and production functions and also increasing its staff by some 15%.
At the forefront of lithium-ion battery technology, Lincad is ISO 9001 and TickITplus certified with expertise in battery electrochemistry and systems, hardware and software engineering. In addition to product design and manufacture, the company offers a full life cycle product support service, including repairs and upgrades, from the point of introduction into service through to disposal at the end of a product’s lifetime. To augment this after-sales provision, Lincad recently opened a new Service and Maintenance Centre, thereby strengthening its ability to meet the increasing requirement for through life support.
Since 1986, Lincad has been providing military power management solutions for applications ranging in size from handheld soldier radios to explosive ordnance disposal remotely operated vehicles, primarily for the UK MOD and prime contractors in the defence industry. Impressed by the company’s long-established heritage in military markets, a number of industrial customers have also looked to Lincad for their power management requirements. Recent work has involved the development of a battery for a submersible autonomous inspection vehicle used in the offshore petrochemical industry.
Lincad also works with customers in the medical sector, providing power management solutions for specialist analytical medical equipment and supplying batteries to the NHS to support the vital work of doctors and nurses within the UK. With its long-established relationships with the world’s leading cell suppliers, Lincad is also able to supply customers with commercial off-the-shelf products covering a range of applications and different types of battery electrochemistry.
Janet Rowe, Lincad’s Joint Managing Director, commented: “Based in Surrey for more than 30 years and operating from our present site in Ash Vale since 2009, we have been constantly taking product performance to new limits, producing lighter, more powerful batteries with faster, more flexible charging solutions. It is particularly gratifying that the consistent demand from our customers has made necessary, and fully justified, this large expansion of our current facilities and the creation of a significant number of new jobs.”
MARITIME
23 Jan 19. US Navy Commissions Destroyer Michael Monsoor. The US Navy commissioned its newest destroyer, USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), Saturday, Jan. 26, during a 10 a.m. PST ceremony at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, where the ship will be homeported. The second ship in the Zumwalt-class of destroyers, DDG-1001 is named in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class (SEAL) Michael A. Monsoor, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in Ramadi, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2006.
The Honorable Scott Peters, U.S. representative from California’s 52nd District, delivered the commissioning ceremony’s principal address. Sally Monsoor, Petty Officer Monsoor’s mother, will serve as the ship’s sponsor. The ceremony will be highlighted by a time-honored Navy tradition when Mrs. Monsoor gives the first order to “man our ship and bring her to life!”
“USS Michael Monsoor is one of the most capable warfighting assets our nation has to offer,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “This ship will provide independent forward presence and deterrence for decades to come and I am confident the crew will operate this vessel with the level of expertise, courage and strength needed to overcome any challenge.”
On Sept. 29, 2006, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, Monsoor was part of a sniper overwatch security position with two other SEALs and several Iraqi Army soldiers when an insurgent closed in and threw a fragmentation grenade into the position. The grenade hit Monsoor in the chest before falling to the ground. Positioned next to the single exit, Monsoor was the only one who could have escaped harm. Instead he dropped onto the grenade, smothering it to protect his teammates. The grenade detonated as he came down on top of it, inflicting a mortal wound. Monsoor’s actions saved the lives of his two teammates and the accompanying Iraqi soldiers. His Medal of Honor citation reads, “by his undaunted courage, fighting spirit and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of certain death, Petty Officer Monsoor gallantly gave his life for his country, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.”
The future USS Michael Monsoor includes new technologies and will serve as a multi-mission platform capable of operating as an integral part of naval, joint or combined maritime forces. The Zumwalt-class fields a considerably larger flight deck and has capacity for two MH-60R and multiple unmanned aerial vehicles to execute a wider array of surface, aviation, and undersea missions that deliver more manpower, firepower, and computing power to the fight. The future USS Michael Monsoor’s Vertical Launch System (VLS) features cells physically larger than similar cells on today’s ships, allowing this class to fire larger and more advanced land and anti-ship missiles in the future. (Source: US DoD)
23 Jan 19. Indonesian Navy inducts sixth LPD into Armada I fleet.
Key Points:
- The Indonesian Navy has commissioned a second landing platform dock-based hospital ship
- The vessel, the sixth-in-class overall, will improve the service’s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief capabilities in western Indonesia
The Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Laut: TNI-AL) commissioned its sixth landing platform dock (LPD) vessel on 21 January.
The LPD, which has been named KRI Semarang (594), has been inducted into the TNI-AL’s Armada I fleet, and will operate largely in waters off the Banten region, Central Java, Sumatra, West Java, and West Kalimantan.
Semarang was ordered under a January 2017 contract signed between the Indonesian government and state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL. (Source: IHS Jane’s)
AIR
21 Jan 19. Indian Air Force’s Cheetal helicopter facing rotor blade problems. The Indian Air Force (IAF) is facing “serious problems” with its fleet of retrofitted Cheetal light utility helicopters (LUHs) due to quality issues related to the licence production of upgraded rotor blades for the platforms by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), according to official sources. Senior military officers told Jane’s on 21 January that the IAF had informed the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in late 2018 that 12 HAL-built, 85-series rotor blades for the single-engined Cheetal were found to be “unsuitable” due to their “unusually high” vibration levels. HAL had built these rotor blades following a technology transfer from Airbus Helicopters, which had stopped making them in 2012. (Source: IHS Jane’s)
MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT
PERSONNEL
24 Jan 19. US Space Force skeptic will guide its fate in HASC shakeup. A key congressional skeptic of President Donald Trump’s Space Forceproposal will help lead a House subpanel overseeing the matter. In a shakeup of the House Armed Services Committee roster announced Wednesday for the new, Democratic-led Congress, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, was named the ranking member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. The former StratFor ranking member, Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., who is a Space Force proponent, was named chairman. Cooper has argued America needs a sixth branch of the military dedicated to protecting our space assets and developing more capable space systems, while Turner has periodically called for more study. The duo were just two from the group of new subcommittee leaders on the influential House Armed Services Committee, which in the coming weeks will begin work on the annual defense authorization bill that sets the tone for military priorities and spending. News leaked last month that after months of deliberating how to stand up a Space Force, a sixth branch of the military proposed by Trump, Pentagon leaders have decided to funnel the new organization under the Department of the Air Force. But Congress would have to assent.
Beyond Space Corps, Cooper and Turner will oversee a portfolio that includes nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy’s national security programs and ballistic missile defense, just as new HASC Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., has decried the cost of maintaining America’s atomic arsenal and Trump’s plans to expand it.
“I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure our national security interests in space and a nuclear deterrence that protects the homeland and assures our allies,” Turner said in a statement Wednesday.
“Mike has been a champion of the strategic forces agenda, and I am pleased to have him returning as the leading Republican voice on the subcommittee,” said HASC ranking member Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas. “His experience in this area will be critical to this committee’s success.”
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the former StratFor chairman, was elected ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
HASC has mothballed the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee as Smith himself is expected to lead stiffened oversight of the Trump administration, particularly the military’s far-flung engagements.
There’s a new team leading the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., replaces Turner as chairman. Former Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., has become the ranking member of the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, replacing Massachusetts Rep. Niki Tsongas, who is now retired.
“New Jersey is home to a number of defense facilities and industries that provide high-tech jobs and play an important role in the security of the United States, including Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,” Norcoss said in a statement. “In this new leadership role, I will be able to continue supporting our missions at these facilities and others across the country.”
There’s also a new team leading the Readiness Subcommittee, whose broad portfolio encompasses one-third of the Pentagon’s budget, including military training, logistics and maintenance, as well as military construction and base closures.
Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., picks up the Readiness gavel from Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., while Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., takes over as ranking member, after Madeleine Bordallo, D-Guam, lost her re-election bid.
“I look forward to working with House Armed Services Committee Chair, Adam Smith, to support our military as it continues to adapt to 21st century threats,” Garamendi said in a statement. “I will work diligently with my colleagues on the Readiness Subcommittee to ensure the United States military remains the strongest, most capable, and wisest military on earth.”
Smith named Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., his vice chair — taking over for former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas, the vice ranking member.
An Army Reserve colonel and former Maryland lieutenant governor, Brown said in a statement he would be “amplifying the diverse voices of our caucus, and helping push an affirmative agenda to reinvigorate American leadership and make the United States more secure.”
The leadership of HASC subcommittees is as follows:
Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Chair: Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I.
- Ranking member: Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.
Military Personnel
- Chair: Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif.
- Ranking member: Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Miss.
Readiness
- Chair: Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif.
- Ranking member: Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo.
Seapower and Projection Forces
- Chair: Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn.
- Ranking member: Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.
Strategic Forces
- Chair: Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn.
- Ranking member: Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio
(Source: Defense News)
21 Jan 19. Russian Airborne Troops could become airmobile expeditionary force. The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering a reform of the Airborne Troops (VDV) that would change their mission from large-scale paradrops to expeditionary operations in global hotspots. Citing MoD sources, Russian newspaper Izvestia reported on 17 January that the VDV could become airmobile rather than airborne and operate its own aviation support. Transforming the VDV into a ‘global strike force’ capable of establishing bases wherever Russian national interests dictate is more useful than reserving them for conventional airborne operations, according to the newspaper’s MoD sources. The VDV has only been used as infantry since the end of the Cold War. (Source: IHS Jane’s)
U.S. APPOINTMENTS
20 Jan 19. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., is passing the Seapower Subcommittee gavel to self-described “China watcher” Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., as part of a larger reshuffle on the Senate Armed Services Committee for the new Congress. Perdue’s state hosts nine military installations, including the 40-year-old Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, which is home to six Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, two guided-missile submarines and a facility that assembles the D-5 ballistic missile. Perdue’s selection to head the Senate Seapower Subcommittee is a bicameral coup for the U.S. Navy’s submariners. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., who is the presumptive head of the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, has been a fierce advocate for submarine building. (Source: Defense News)
REST OF THE WORLD APPOINTMENTS
24 Jan 19. Defence Science and Technology (DST) has announced that Professor Tanya Monro has been appointed as the new Chief Defence Scientist. Professor Monro will start in the position in March, finishing up her duties as deputy vice chancellor research and innovation and an ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow at the University of South Australia. Professor Monro was the inaugural director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) from 2008 to 2014, as well as inaugural director for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at the University of Adelaide. She gained her PhD in physics in 1998 from the University of Sydney, receiving the Bragg Gold Medal for the best Physics PhD in Australia. She’s also been recognised for her “significant contribution” to the understanding of how light can be generated, controlled and used to probe and manipulate matter. (Source: Defence Connect)
INDUSTRY
PERSONNEL
EUROPE APPOINTMENTS
21 Jan 19. Meggitt (MGGT) has announced the appointment to the board of Caroline Silver, who will take up her role as non-executive director on 25 April 2019. Ms Silver will also join the company’s Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees. She is currently a senior managing director at investment bank Moelis & Company and non-executive chairman of consumer products group, PZ Cussons. (Source: Investors Chronicle)
U.S. APPOINTMENTS
24 Jan 19. AST & Science has named satellite-industry veteran Chris Ivory to serve as chief commercial officer (CCO) and also chief executive officer (CEO) of the newly formed AST & Defense subsidiary. Abel Avellan, chairman and CEO of AST & Science, said Ivory will develop and manage relationships with key customers and strategic partners worldwide, while also taking responsibility for all aspects of the company’s U.S. government business. In addition, Ivory has been appointed U.S. general manager for NanoAvionics, a European satellite manufacturing company in which AST & Science acquired a controlling interest last year. In that role, he will spearhead NanoAvionics’ growing business in the Americas.
16 Jan 19. Maxar’s President and CEO, Howard Lance, Resigns. Daniel Jablonsky Named to the Leadership Position. Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) (“Maxar” or the “Company”), has appointed Daniel Jablonsky to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxar, effective immediately. Mr. Jablonsky, who most recently served as President of DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, will also join the Maxar Board of Directors. He succeeds Howard Lance, who has resigned from his roles as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of Maxar. (Source: Satnews)
REST OF THE WORLD APPOINTMENTS
23 Jan 19. RoboSense, a leader in LiDAR perception technology, announced today that Dr. Leilei Shinohara has joined RoboSense as Vice President of R&D. With more than a decade of experience developing LiDAR systems, Dr. Shinohara is regarded as one of the most accomplished experts in this field. He previously served as the lead of Valeo’s SCALA® LiDAR project, the world’s first automotive grade LiDAR product. Dr. Shinohara brings RoboSense a wealth of valuable experience that will help with the growth and development of the automotive grade mass production of RoboSense’s LiDAR products.
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