Systems Engineering Support Analyst

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Systems Engineering Support Analyst Company: Boeing Defence United Kingdom Limited BDUK is a subsidiary of the Boeing Company and currently employs over 2,000 people in the UK. BDUK is responsible for delivering several game-changing contracts to our UK defence customers including E-7 AEW&C, P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Sustainment Services for the Chinook, Apache and C-17 Fleets, Logistic Information Services and Training Services. The purpose of this role is to work within an established team of Boeing Operational Analysts with experience in the Air, Maritime and Land domains to deliver independent, focused and defensible analysis across the UK Defence and Security domain, plus optimisation studies for Boeing's internal customers. The candidate will support the conduct of analysis tasks and experimental campaigns that will identify, guide and support emerging opportunities within both BDUK and wider Boeing Global Services (BGS) markets.   Role Responsibilities The analysis work undertaken within The Boeing Portal focusses on the provision of quantitative evidence that can be used within business cases to support procurement and investment decisions. Candidates for this position must therefore have a mathematical background and be comfortable with the provision and defence of empirical evidence. In addition, the successful candidate would have a broad background in Operational Analysis or Statistical tools & techniques and potentially Systems Engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), with the motivation and confidence to learn while concurrently delivering a personal portfolio of experiments. The ability to work collaboratively across the business is a key part of this role.   The successful candidate will deliver Operational Analysis tasks set, to ensure that the team is able to carry out analysis and decision support across BDUK’s portfolio of Platform Programmes and Supporting Services and where appropriate deliver the same capability to wider Boeing. Typical focus areas are as follows: • Market Analysis; reviewing potential military uses of Boeing produces through quantitative means to support the growth of BGS into new and existing markets. • Force Structures Analysis; using the full spectrum of Operational Research techniques (soft and hard) to develop internal and external customers' understanding of their future defence requirements, identification of capability gaps and the analysis of potential solutions. • Platform Level Assessment; By applying a broad range of quantitative techniques to support customers in the down-selecting of platform options through the identification of suitable measures of effectiveness. This analysis must be robust and independent with the expectation that it will be used in support of external & internal Customer Reports and Business Cases. • Cost Analysis; High level cost analysis of platform solutions to provide an empirical measure of comparison enabling cost-capability trade studies in support of customer prioritisation in increasingly constrained budgetary environments. • Use of forecasting and optimization tools to provide Decision Support directly to a Customer or to integrate them into Discrete Event Simulations as part of an Experimental Campaign. This includes the optimizations for Supply Chain, Depth Maintenance and Organizational Efficiencies across a broad portfolio of platforms, products and services. • Operational Research report writing and the incorporation of Operational Analysis Data into Customer Business Cases.   The Operational Analyst is also required to: • Learn and apply Project Management Best Practices to ensure Operational Analysis tasks and Campaigns are completed on time, to budget and at the agreed quality. • Support the delivery, al

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