Systems Engineering Team Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Systems Engineering Team Lead to join a growing space organisation developing complex spacecraft and advanced space systems. Make your application after reading the following skill and qualification requirements for this position. This is a senior technical leadership position combining systems engineering, technical delivery and people management. You will lead a team of systems engineers while remaining closely involved in the development and maturation of complex space systems, from early architecture and mission definition through to integration, verification and delivery. Working closely with project managers, customers, suppliers and multidisciplinary engineering teams, you will help shape technical solutions, lead system-level trade-offs and ensure projects remain aligned with performance, cost and schedule requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of approximately 6–8 systems engineers, supporting their development, workload and performance. Define mission concepts, system requirements, technical objectives and development profiles based on customer and stakeholder needs. Lead system-level architecture development and technical trade-off studies. Identify key technical drivers relating to system performance, risk, cost and schedule. Lead technical discussions and present trade-off analyses to engineering and project stakeholders. Manage requirements, design baselines and configuration/change management throughout the system lifecycle. Work closely with project managers, engineering leadership, customers and suppliers to achieve consensus on complex technical issues. Coordinate technical deliverables, risk mitigation activities and engineering priorities across multidisciplinary teams. Identify technical and resource requirements across current and future projects. Support recruitment, interviewing and onboarding of new systems engineering team members. Identify skills gaps and develop plans to support the professional development of engineers. Review and provide technical oversight of engineering outputs. Support the team with hands-on systems engineering activities where required. xwwtmva

About You

We are looking for an experienced systems engineer with a strong background in space or similarly complex engineering environments, who is ready to take the next step into a technical team leadership position. You should have: 5+ years' experience in space systems engineering or a similarly complex engineering environmen...