SKA ORGANISATION
Element System Engineer: Aperture Arrays
Reference: MESE02
Competitive Salary and Flexible Benefits
This is an exciting opportunity to join the SKA Organisation, a newly incorporated not-for-profit company
which will lead the overall system design for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project and will oversee the
supporting developments and designs within globally distributed SKA work packages (WPs). Work packages
for the major SKA subsystems (Elements) will be contracted on a small number of work package consortia
who will be responsible for the management, execution and delivery of the work packages.
The SKA Organisation has annual income of around £5 M and will employ approximately 30 staff by the end
of 2012.
The SKA Organisation is currently based in the Alan Turing Building, The University of Manchester, but is
expected to move to a purpose-built building at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire (UK) in October 2012.
Role
Reporting into the SKA Project Manager you will be responsible to provide technical leadership to the SKA
Aperture Array Element(s) and support the SKA Office system engineering team by overseeing all aspects of
system engineering within the SKA Aperture Array Element(s).
You will also be expected to actively execute, participate and support the system level system engineering
team in aspects such as the development of models, architectures, requirements analysis and validation,
requirements allocation and management, and interface development and management.
We are looking for an experienced system engineer for the SKA Aperture Array Element(s) with a proven
track record in the development of system engineering products and the utilisation of system engineering
tools in medium to large technically complex projects.
You must also have:
 University degree in Physics or Engineering, another closely related and relevant field, or
equivalent expertise.
 Demonstrated experience in the development of system engineering products and the
utilisation of system engineering tools in medium to large technically complex projects.
 High level domain knowledge of aperture array systems.
 Demonstrated technical knowledge of some of the critical technologies or major units within
aperture arrays.
 Good oral and written communication skills.
 Willingness to represent the SKA Office in international and other forums, ability to work closely
with regional SKA management staff from a variety of cultures, and willingness to travel to SKA
consortium locations and centres.
 Membership of, or eligibility for membership of, recognised national and international system
engineering institutes.
Closing date for applications: 7 August 2012
Applications to be submitted quoting MESE02 by e-mail to jobs@skatelescope.org
To apply please visit please visit www.skatelescope.org/jobs for further information and a detailed job
specification.
For further queries please contact Kobus Cloete.
Email: cloete@skatelescope.org
Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 4081