Job Description

About your next Challenge as a Systems Engineer, Naval Communications Systems: The candidate must be able to work through customer requirements to technical requirements to product solutions. An understanding of Functional and Allocated baselines in addition to Top-Level and Detailed Level Design approaches is required. Working knowledge of standard system engineering process including: MIL-STD-499, EIA-632, IEEE 1220 or ISO 15288. Strong verbal, written, and people development skills are required.
What will you do:

• System Engineering activities for bids, contracts and products in the military / civilian markets for domestic / international customers ;
• Creation of high-level conceptual designs, innovative, scalable, and adaptive solutions to complex systems;
• Projects involving Interface Control Documents (ICDs) between system components
• Systems studies and analyses;
• Trade studies and engineering budgets (power, weight, design margin, etc.);
• Identification of risks, write risk statements, and prepare risk mitigation strategies;
• Analysis and tracking of baseline changes;
• Estimate work packages;
• Design, implement and execute system test cases. Analyze and evaluate test results;
• Develop technical specifications for suppliers and subcontractors. Identify potential suppliers. Monitor supplier performance;
• Scoping and costing specialty efforts;
• Industry engagement and trade studies for refinement of equipment specifications to develop optimal system solutions;
• Preparation of equipment procurement specification;
• Development of test plans to verify and validate requirements;
• Vendor selection criteria and conduct vendor evaluations with established criteria;
• Requirements elicitation and decomposition towards subsystem elements including subcontracted items;
• Requirements derivation and development for subsystem elements;
• Technical subcontract management including management of work scope and compliance of the (subcontractor) supplied solution;
• Development of the preliminary and detailed designs for system and subsystem elements;
• Production of technical documentation to capture the system and subsystem designs including the architecture, interfaces and installation elements;
• Support test, verification, and validation activities.

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent with 2-10 years experience in the systems engineering life cycle, including typical tools for requirements development (e.g. DOORS);
• An understanding of Functional and Allocated baselines in addition to Top-Level and Detailed Level Design approaches is required. Working knowledge of standard system engineering process including: MIL-STD-499, EIA-632, IEEE 1220 or ISO 15288
• Candidate must be adept at: Functional Analysis, Requirements Allocation & Traceability, Trade-off Studies, System Synthesis and Software System Evaluation (Integration & Verification Testing), and Field Services.
• The candidate must be able to work through customer requirements to technical requirements to product solutions.
• Knowledge of electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and system block diagrams;
• Knowledge of naval communication systems, including V/UHF systems, SATCOM systems, tactical voice systems

• Must be eligible for registration with the Controlled Goods Program;
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a government of Canada Reliability status and Secret Level 2/NATO SECRET security clearance;
• Must be eligible to meet the requirements for U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).