Systems Requirements Manager (Cowes)

Location: Isle of Wight (Cowes), Portsmouth (BroadOak), or Great Baddow (Chelmsford)

Salary: Up to £75,900 based on skills and experience, plus a bonus scheme. Part-time and accruing hours options available—let's discuss what works for you!

• Lead and manage requirements activities throughout the engineering lifecycle, applying ISO 15288 principles for seamless traceability from definition to validation.
• Own and maintain the requirements database, ensuring effective decomposition, verification, and specification across system levels.
• Define and implement robust requirements management processes and plans tailored to project and customer needs.
• Administer access, training, and support for requirements tools (e.g., DOORS Next ), promoting best practices across the team.
• Facilitate integration of tools and data exchange with third parties, ensuring configuration control and data integrity.
• Monitor requirements stability, generate key metrics, and support the production of requirement documentation and specifications.

• Expert-level knowledge of Systems Engineering principles with a strong systems thinking approach to requirement definition and management.
• Familiarity with key standards related to requirements specification (e.g., ISO 15288, ISO 12207, ISO 29148, IEEE 1016).
• Proven experience with requirements management tools (e.g., IBM DOORS Next ) and configuration control.
• In-depth understanding of the full engineering lifecycle, including models like Waterfall and Agile , and tools like JIRA .
• Degree-level education (or equivalent experience) in a STEM discipline.

We offer a competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, and a wide range of flexible health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including:

• Green car scheme
• Private health plans
• Shopping discounts
• Eligibility for an annual incentive

Join us in shaping the future of radar technology! We are enhancing our radar portfolio and developing new products to address emerging threats in Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, we aim to stay at the forefront of defense innovation.

As a Radar Systems Requirements Manager, you will support our leading radar products, ensuring consistency and traceability across the engineering lifecycle—from definition through to integration, acceptance, and support. You will take ownership of the requirements database and drive continuous improvement in methodologies and tools, particularly around the use of DOORS Next .

Our workplace in Cowes is easily accessible from Southampton via a regular foot passenger ferry and a BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to the site.

We understand that work-life balance is essential. Our flexible working approach allows you to adjust your hours based on your role and location, ensuring you can balance your professional and personal life effectively.

This is a place where you can truly make a difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and empowers you to reach your full potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.