Melbreck Technical Recruitment

Melbreck Technical Recruitment is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Bristol, offering a salary between £60,000 to £75,000. The role is key to ensuring safety standards for aerospace systems, focusing on developing future innovations. You will work with a dynamic R&D team responsible for creating the next generation of aerospace systems, ensuring compliance with standards like ARP4761 and ARP4754. Benefits include a flexible working environment, a bonus up to 10%, and a pension scheme.

Software Engineer Salary: £50,000-£55,000 (flexible depending on experience) Location: Bedfordshire (Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire Border) Flexible Working & Hybrid Options Available This is an opportunity with a market-leading manufacturer of advanced food processing equipment and systems, supplying customers across the UK and worldwide. Due to continued growth in both domestic and international markets, the business is looking for a talented and motivated Software Engineer to join their specialist software team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge food processing equipment and automation systems, including the development and programming of robotic applications. You'll be involved throughout the project life cycle, from software development and commissioning to supporting installations around the world. Software Engineer - What You'll Be Doing Developing and programming PLC and HMI control systems Supporting machine commissioning and start-up activities Working with robotics, conveyor systems and automated production equipment Developing and supporting software solutions for customers worldwide Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver innovative automation projects Software Engineer - What We're Looking For Experience in some or all of the following: PLC and HMI programming (Mitsubishi experience desirable but not essential) Experience with Allen Bradley, Siemens or Omron control systems Structured Text programming Industrial communications including Profinet, Profibus and EtherNet/IP Machine commissioning, packaging systems, conveyor systems or robotics High-level programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, VB or Python Software engineer - What's On Offer? Flexible and hybrid working arrangements Opportunities for UK and international travel Career development and progression within a growing business The chance to work on innovative, industry-leading automation and robotics projects A supportive, close-knit engineering team environment If you're passionate about automation, software development and advanced engineering technology, we'd love to hear from you.

Senior Systems Engineer - Bristol - £60,000 to £75,000 - Pension, Bonus, Flexible Working - Excellent Career Progression Melbreck are working with a world leader who specialise in the design and manufacture of specialist systems for the aerospace sector. A business that has been around for over 80 years. Due to having a great start to 2026, and as part of their strategic succession planning, they are looking to increase their technical capabilities within their R&D Department. As such are looking for a talented Senior Systems Engineer to join their team ASAP. The role is heavily geared towards system safety, and this is a business-critical role. It is both key to ensuring the safety of current systems, but more importantly, systems that have not yet been conceived. You will be working in a fast-paced R&D team who are conceptualising the next generation aerospace systems. Systems that will define the aviation sector for the next two decades. Senior Systems Engineer - Role Overview: As a senior systems engineer you will be responsible for helping to ensure that all products and systems meet both the requirements and the standards ARP4761 and ARP4754. You will also be developing and recommending solutions to meet functional hazard assessments, preliminary system safety assessments, and system safety assessments Senior Systems Engineer - Role Responsibilities: Analyse industry requirements to help create design proposals from scratch for new designs. Help, and lead, when necessary, design proposals to meet customer requests, and propose new designs to meet industry needs. Capture requirements, writing system and sub-system specifications and descriptions. Work through development assurance levels to understand potential failures, using fault tree analysis, failure mode effects analysis, and common cause analysis, on new systems. Model solutions. Deliver design reviews. Validate design solutions. Create verification specifications and standard operating procedures for testing and verification. Over time, become the subject matter expert of system safety. Systems Engineer - Candidate Requirements: Bachelor's degree (BS) (or Professional Engineer (PE) certificate) in an engineering or science technical discipline, ideally aerospace. Possess good all-round knowledge of electronic systems. Have previous working knowledge of ARP4761 and ARP4754, or demonstrable experience from a safety critical industry and proven capability at working on complete systems or products. (e.g. medical devices, defence or nuclear) Knowledge of the aerospace product area with a breadth of knowledge of industry practices, techniques, regulations, and policies, would be a significant advantage. Be proficient with engineering design and analysis tools. Ability to travel when required to US locations and Mainland Europe to support aircraft testing. Senior Systems Engineer - Hours and Benefits: 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home Up to 10% bonus Up to 17% pension Excellent employee welfare schemes and programs