Senior Systems Engineer - Sensors

SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a fast growing and ambitious company headquartered in Bath, UK that is making a global impact in the marine domain. We are leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies, products and systems that significantly enhance, security, safety and environment protection and sustainability. Our customers are worldwide and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners.

SRT is an exciting meritocracy, where high quality results are rewarded. We are ambitious and are constantly seeking to innovate to deliver better products to our customers. We strive to make SRT a rewarding and challenging place to work where talented hard-working individuals have the opportunity to make a real impact across the marine world, and on themselves through personal financial rewards and job satisfaction.

Role Overview

Reporting to the Systems Engineering Manager, the Senior Systems Engineer will be part of the Systems Delivery department and will be responsible for all the feasibility, proof-of-concept, installation, configuration and commissioning of sensor systems provided to customers as part of the SRT-MDA product.   

The role will bring expertise and experience of surveillance systems (radars, surveillance cameras, radio etc), such that they become the go to person within SRT for the installation, commissioning, configuration and integration of surveillance systems within the SRT-MDA product. 

Responsibilities

• Defining installation plans for all surveillance products.
• Defining commissioning and configuration planning for all surveillance products to be used within the core SRT-MDA product. 
• Defining support requirements for the surveillance products, including maintenance procedures, sparing models and storage requirements.
• Working with Product Management and Development to select and integrate the most appropriate sensors and surveillance products, advising on practical performance and installation issues. 
• Produce all installation documentation, manuals, and guidance and ensure that such documents are controlled using SRT’s standard document policy.
• Define, plan and execute training courses for in country partners, customers and internal SRT people on the installation and use of surveillance and sensor systems. 
• Perform quality assurance, review and sign-off of surveillance systems installed by our In-Country Partners to ensure they meet the agreed standards.
• Create high quality installation and configuration documentation to be used by in-country partners and support desk.
• Assist in the training of relevant parties of technical configuration and standards

Requirements

The successful candidate will possess the following skills, experience and qualities:

• 5 years experience of leading teams in the installation and commissioning of surveillance systems.
• Broad understanding of how sensors integrate with wider systems including data transfer and collection.
• Good technical knowledge of network architecture and how surveillance systems are integrated into network topologies and technologies.
• Good background in the subject matter and a wealth of experience applicable to the solution areas.
• Proven track record of technical oversight including vendor solutions.
• Assessing effort, risk, costs and complexity for solutions.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to provide expertise and practical assistance in the investigation, evaluation and interpretation of surveillance data in order to ensure its coherence, availability, accuracy and security.
• Ability to assess COTS applications and oversee the implementation of associated tools and surveillance products.