Systems Engineer
Full time, permanent
Vaxholm, Onsite
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The Role:
As a Systems Engineer, you’ll provide expertise across the full product lifecycle, ensuring our solutions meet customer needs and comply with safety, environmental, and performance standards. You’ll take a holistic approach to requirements, architecture, and technical specifications, driving seamless integration of systems and promoting best practices within the engineering team.
We’re looking for someone with strong communication skills in Swedish and English, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. You should be organized, adaptable, and committed to delivering high-quality, cost-efficient solutions on time and within budget.
What you’ll be doing:
- Implementing and tailoring Systems Engineering processes, methods, and best practices to suit individual project needs
- Working alongside product capability managers to elicit and document stakeholder requirements to ensure the best technical solution is provided in all instances.
- Preparation and management of system and sub-system technical requirements
- Creation of engineering documentation such as system requirements, specifications, procedures, and reports
- Working with engineers and testing team ensuring integration, verification, validation, and qualification activities are carried out against requirements
- Site visits to other JFD offices and client assets as and when required.
- Accountability and responsibility as technical checker of documentation generated in support of the systems engineer role.
- Integration of systems on crafts, including complex communications between systems.
What we’re looking for:
- Demonstrated experience in a similar role.
- Experience in embedding Systems Engineering into an engineering function.
- Knowledge of both regulatory standards and directives.
- Engineering degree.
- Systems Engineers with the required knowledge, skills and experience will be considered from any industrial background such as defence, automotive, energy or aerospace.
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of a requirements capture tool such as Jama Connect or IBM Doors.
- Knowledge of design for functional safety compliance, particularly IEC 61508.
- Knowledge of design for CE and UKCA Compliance.
- INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification or working towards these.
- Chartered Engineer or working towards CEng.
- Experience from defence industry.
- Experience from vehicle design and/or construction, marine applications meriting.
- Experience of safety critical systems withing aerospace, vehicle or other relevant industries.
- Knowledge of INCOSE Systems Engineering processes and methods.
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About Us:
James Fisher is a global engineering services company operating across Energy, Defence, and Maritime Transport. With a strong heritage in maritime operations, we now deliver innovative solutions in challenging environments. Our One James Fisher strategy is focused on building a unified, sustainable business within the Blue Economy, driving progress through technology, expertise, and collaboration.
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James Fisher Defence (JFD), part of the James Fisher Group, is a global leader in underwater capability, delivering cutting-edge diving, submarine rescue, and hyperbaric solutions to both commercial and defence markets. Operating worldwide, JFD is the foremost provider of submarine rescue services and a trusted name in submarine escape training. We’re also at the forefront of hyperbaric rescue innovation and a leading supplier of advanced diving equipment and saturation systems across the industry. Explore more about JFD
James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage applications for candidates from all backgrounds. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and recognise that our success depends on our talented and diverse workforce.