Senior Systems Engineer (Product) – Gas Analysis Solutions
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What You'll Be Doing
Working closely with Research, Product Development, Software, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Production, Quality, and Regulatory teams, you will:
Requirements Engineering
- Lead the capture, analysis, and management of customer, stakeholder, business, and regulatory requirements
- Translate user needs into clear, measurable, and testable system requirements
- Establish and maintain complete bidirectional traceability throughout the product lifecycle
- Facilitate requirements reviews and ensure alignment between stakeholders and development teams
- Manage requirement changes and maintain configuration control throughout development
System Architecture & Design
Contribute to system architecture development and technical solution definition
Support concept development, requirements allocation, and design trade-off activities
Evaluate technical decisions against performance, reliability, compliance, manufacturability, and business objectives
Ensure solutions remain scalable, maintainable, and testable
Risk Management & Technical Governance
Lead system-level risk assessments and FMEA activities
Identify, communicate, and manage technical risks throughout product development
Facilitate design reviews and provide robust technical justification for engineering decisions
Apply systems-thinking approaches to root cause investigations and problem solving
Verification & Validation
Develop verification and validation strategies aligned to system and product requirements
Define acceptance criteria, verification methods, and evidence requirements
Review verification results and validation outcomes to ensure complete coverage of requirements
Support system-level testing activities and provide objective assessments of product readiness
Leadership & Continuous Improvement
Champion systems engineering best practices across the business
About You
We're looking for someone with the desire to own the full product development lifestyle, with the ability to influence across multidisciplinary teams.
Essential Experience and skills
- Strong experience and understanding of systems engineering principles across the full product lifecycle (from requirement to post release)
- Solid and proven experience in product development and technical leadership
- Experience with requirements elicitation, decomposition, allocation, and management
- Proven experience maintaining requirements traceability
- Strong knowledge of verification and validation methodologies
- Experience leading risk assessments, FMEA activities, and technical reviews
- Understanding of system architecture development and interface management
- Experience working with multidisciplinary products involving software, electronics, mechanics, instrumentation, and complex systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured approach to root cause analysis
- Ability to balance technical, commercial, regulatory, and operational considerations when making engineering decisions
- Experience mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practice
Desirable Experience and skills
- Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama, DOORS, or equivalent
- Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML
- Experience within analytical instrumentation, spectroscopy, gas analysis, process monitoring, or related technologies
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 , CE/UKCA compliance, EMC, and product safety standards
- Exposure to automated testing, data analysis, Python, or LabVIEW
- INCOSE, Six Sigma, Project Management, Quality, or Atlassian/Jira certifications
Qualifications
- Degree-qualified in Systems Engineering, Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Electronics, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
Why Join Servomex?
At Servomex, you'll have the opportunity to work on technically challenging products that help customers improve safety, sustainability, efficiency, and performance across global industries. You'll join an organisation that values engineering rigour, innovation, and collaboration while providing opportunities to influence product strategy and drive engineering excellence.
Location
- Crowborough, East Sussex (onsite five days/week, Monday to Friday) during probation.
- A hybrid working arrangement of 3 to 4 days onsite after probation – flexibility may be required due to business demands
- Type of opportunity: Full time and permanent
Salary: £60,000 to £65,000
- Servomex considers several factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Benefits
- Discretionary Company Bonus
- Opportunities for growth & development through our structured Talent Management System
- Annual Performance Review
- Private Medical Insurance
- Personal Pension Plan (up to 10.5% employer contribution)
- Employee Wellbeing Programme
- 25 days’ annual leave with option to buy more + Bank Holidays + Company Shutdown Day
- Two Volunteering Days
- Life Assurance (4 x Salary)
- Enhanced Family Friendly benefits & pay
- Staff Referral Scheme and Long Service Awards
- Global Recognition Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free Parking
Interview & Selection Process
We want you to feel confident that Servomex is the right place for you. Throughout the process, you’ll have plenty of chances to ask questions and get a real sense of who we are, what we do and what your future here could look like.
Friendly chat with our Talent Team
Teams video interview with the hiring team
Teams video scenario-based activity
On ‑ site interview, meet the team and tour of our facility
We welcome and support candidates who may need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. You will have an opportunity to tell us about any adjustments you may need when you apply, and we will do our best to put these in place.
We are also committed to making reasonable adjustments for employees wherever possible, so that everyone can perform their role to the best of their ability.
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About Servomex
Specialist manufacturer of premium gas and moisture analysis solutions for industrial, medical, and semiconductor applications.
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