We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a talented Senior Systems Engineering Consultant to join our growing Solutions Engineering team.
Since our establishment in 2018, Whitetree has been on a mission to empower clients, make lasting impacts, and provide unmatched career growth opportunities. We're passionate innovators driven by our values of Trust, Integrity, Innovation, and Excellence.
The Role
As part of our agile team, you’ll make a critical impact on the business and our clients, showcasing your Systems Engineering and Requirements Management capabilities. You’ll deliver a diverse range of Defence projects with the opportunity to dive into adjacent markets as we grow and diversity beyond the Defence sector.
Our Solutions Engineering team harness cutting-edge Systems Engineering and Solution Architecting expertise to provide clients with streamlined solutions. Your day-to-day role will include:
- Driving Systems Engineering thinking and agile / professional engineering processes on client programmes
- Successfully delivering critical design, assurance and acceptance project milestones and technical artefacts
- Identifying, assessing and managing technical risk and opportunities
- Customer and stakeholder relationship management and development
- Technical management and leadership
- Managing and controlling the system design and development process
- Preparing and presenting technical reports and presentations
- Collaborating across wider Whitetree teams, service lines and client projects
Skills & experience required
You will need a strong, systems engineering background, adaptable engineering skills, passion, and an output focused and collaborative mindset including:
- Experience in the adoption and application of the V-Cycle systems engineering process
- Experience of systems requirements development, definition, decomposition, system design and integration, verification, validation and demonstration of acceptance processes
- Experience of user requirements development, CONOPS, CONUSE assessment, their requirements definition and acceptance
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of an integrated systems engineering and project team(s) with experience in the delivery & acceptance of complex engineering systems
- Proficiency with Systems Engineering tools, practices and methodologies including a working understanding of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Book of Knowledge (SeBOK)
- Skilled in client and end user engagement, experience of working collaboratively with project managers, engineers, specialists, supply chains and stakeholders to ensure the system design is developed to meet customer requirements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly orientate, derive and present simplicity from complexity
- Committed to keeping up to date with systems engineering technologies, tools, established best practice and novel technology
- A bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical / Electronics Engineering or a related field or equivalent qualification
- Registration or Incorporation with the Engineering Council and membership or affiliation with a recognised Engineering body is desirable
- Current right to live and work in the UK
- Current SC clearance or willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance check
- Willingness and ability to work from home and travel for client engagements, including overnight stays away from home around the UK when required
Life at Whitetree
At Whitetree, we are proud to provide a collaborative and supportive environment in which you can grow and develop your career, with the chance to work alongside some of the best people in the industry.
We're proud to have recently become one of the select few Chartered Management Consultancies in the UK. This prestigious accreditation reflects our commitment to the highest standards of professional practice and ethical conduct in consulting. As part of our dedication to your professional growth, we're eager to sponsor suitable candidates on their journey to becoming Chartered Management Consultants themselves.
Whitetree’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We hope that excites you enough to apply.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off
- Flexible working arrangements with early Friday finishes (client-dependent)
- 6% matched pension contributions
- All-staff annual bonus scheme
- Vitality private medical insurance with salary sacrifice options to add your family
- Professional development support, chartership pathways and individual training budgets
- 4 half-days of paid time for charity work annually
- £1000 employee recruitment bounty
- Access to electric car and cycle to work salary sacrifice schemes
- Tech salary sacrifice scheme and exclusive discount vouchers
We're proud of our Silver Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Award, reflecting our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment and supporting diverse communities, including the Armed Forces.
Whitetree values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all applicants and employees, building a culture that values openness, fairness, and transparency.
We are a disability confident employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email talent@whitetree.co.uk.
I don’t meet the criteria?
If you don’t meet the role criteria and are still interested in Whitetree careers, contact talent@whitetree.co.uk.
Compulsory National Security Vetting
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