EMC/Tempest Engineer
Duration: 6 months
Location: Portsmouth, 4 days on site per week
Rate: 52.32 Per Hour PAYE / 70 Per Hour Umbrella
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A vacancy for an Engineer focused on TEMPEST and EMC compliant ground system installation design has arisen within at the Portsmouth site. This team is responsible for the satellite communication solutions which include ground based installations of satellite control and communication equipment such as computer server systems, network infrastructure and transmission systems. The primary focus for this role at the Portsmouth site is for the design of equipment installations which are compliant with TEMPEST and EMC standards within the ground based MilSatcom domain.
Responsibilities
The Engineer role involves;
- Support the Systems team in designing a compliant equipment installation design with associated test plans and compliance evidence.
- This support spans all aspects of the system lifecycle from initial design through installation to customer handover.
Tasks and accountabilities
- Your main tasks and responsibilities will include (from concept development, to operational deployment and operations, until retirement):
- Identify the stakeholder for the solution to be developed and capture their needs and expectations.
- Identify boundary of the solution to be developed.
- Elicit and validate requirements for TEMPEST and EMC whilst considering the complete system lifecycle.
- Design and define possible architectures, in collaboration with IS/IT specialists, considering the functions and other requirements (constraints).
- Produce EMC/TEMPEST test plans
- Lead the engagement with test houses to fully define the approach
- Lead modelling using appropriate systems engineering techniques.
- Lead analysis (e.g., performance).
- Perform trade-off analysis in order to select the best solution fulfilling the requirements.
- Validate architecture.
- Define and manage interface requirements.
- Lead verification of the implementation and its interfaces.
- Lead operational and in-service evaluation.
- Lead impact analysis of any design change request during the entire product lifecycle
Skill Set
Essential
We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
- Be able to address the following aspects of TEMPEST/EMC compliant equipment installation:
- Familiarity with TEMPEST standards – preferable
- Knowledge of TEMPEST test specifications, test procedures, test setups, test data - preferable
- Familiarity with EMC standards – preferable
- Knowledge of EMC test specifications, test procedures, test setups, test data - preferable
- Customer EMC requirements analysis
- System level EMC design, development and solutions
- EMC Equipment selection
- Practical experience of installation of electrical equipment, including rack installation and compliant cabling practices - essential
- Understanding of the effects of electrical equipment (and cabling) interference, and methods for mitigating interference - essential
- Electrical safety certification
- Previous experience of generating test plans for sign off of electrical equipment installation, preferably with TEMPEST and/or EMC experience
- Verification, Validation & integration
- Transition to Operation
- Ability to safeguard security classified and/or export-controlled data.
Desirable
Preferred Industry Knowledge
- Knowledge in the following areas is preferred but not essential:
- Military ground site installations and associated standards
- Military communications systems
Preferred Academic Qualifications:
- Educated to at least Degree Level or equivalent in a recognised engineering discipline as recognised by the IET.
- The candidate should preferably hold a Chartered Engineer status and a member of the IET or other equivalent body.
