MBSE System Engineer

Title:

Title: MBSE System Engineer

Salary range: £75,000 to £85,000 per annum

Location: Any FNC office

Working Pattern: We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home.

Closing date is 27th June 2025, but early application encouraged.

Frazer-Nash Consultancy are a systems and engineering technology consultancy that helps organisations deliver innovative engineering to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable. Our people join us to contribute to the world and to learn from some of the best minds in the industry.  

We are looking for an experienced Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Principal/Managing Consultant to provide technical leadership and expert consultancy in MBSE methodologies, best practices, and technical solutions.

You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, ensuring their engineering challenges are met with robust, innovative solutions, while maintaining a commercially informed approach to project delivery and strategy development. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, stakeholder engagement, and business awareness to support both project success and long-term client relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership, guiding clients in MBSE best practices and methodologies.

• Deliver expert consultancy on systems engineering challenges, digital modelling, and solution architecture.

• Engage with stakeholders to understand requirements, define problems, and shape solutions that align with business and operational objectives.

• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring long-term collaboration and strategic advisory support.

• Support bids and proposals by providing technically credible, commercially viable solutions.

• Lead systems lifecycle management, overseeing key processes such as requirements engineering, verification & validation, and system integration.

• Facilitate workshops and technical discussions, ensuring alignment between engineering teams and business objectives.

• Balance technical innovation with commercial strategy, ensuring solutions are cost-effective, scalable, and deliver competitive advantage.

• Contribute to thought leadership in MBSE, authoring technical reports and sharing best practices across projects.

Required Skills & Experience:

• A degree in Electronics, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).

• Background in Defence with a focus on Marine or Land Environments

• Strong expertise in MBSE principles, tools, and systems engineering frameworks (ISO 15288).

• Proven experience providing technical consultancy to clients, influencing engineering decisions and best practices.

• Deep understanding of systems architecture, system integration, and lifecycle management.

• Ability to engage and manage stakeholders, effectively translating technical complexity into actionable solutions.

• Experience supporting bids and proposals with technically sound, commercially viable approaches.

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with a strategic mindset towards both engineering and business development.

Desirable Experience:

• Background and understanding of Systems Engineering in Submarine Systems

• Strong awareness of emerging technologies and innovation strategies within systems engineering.

Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

Benefits

We provide our people with an excellent benefit and offering package that comprises:

• Competitive salary with yearly reviews

• 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.  

• A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.  

• Happy to talk flexible working

• Enhanced parental benefits

• Company pension scheme

• Targeted professional development

• Life assurance

• Private healthcare membership

• Bonus scheme linked into company performance

• Paid membership fees to a professional institution

• Support in attaining professional membership

• Cycle to work scheme

• Season rail ticket loan

• And further optional benefits you can tailor to your personal requirements