Liam Smith

Starting as a Graduate Systems Engineer and progressing to a full Systems Engineer, I gained experience across multiple areas of the business. I initially worked within Maritime Communications on a project delivering a bespoke External Communications System for military vessels. Key responsibilities included:

• Owning major subsystem design documents across multiple system baselines, delivering to key contractual milestones.
• Authoring system qualification reports and Integrated Logistics & Support artefacts.
• Travelling overseas to support system integration, diagnosing issues with system components or interfaces and then proposing viable technical solutions back to the UK based design team for approval.
• Supporting verification and validation activities, including harbor acceptance testing.
• Documenting system configuration and conducting physical audits of the system directly with the customer.

Following the ramp-down of systems engineering activities on the project I was moved across to the decoy launcher side of the business, on a project aimed at providing a decoy launcher capability to several classes of Royal Navy vessels. My key responsibility on this project was conducting a traceability analysis of system requirements to identify gaps in stakeholder requirements coverage.

Embedded into the Systems and Performance team, I had the opportunity to involve myself in a range of office and lab-based engineering work. I achieved the following:

• Updated and produced reports and procedures for the introduction of new components for multiple active military programs.
• Designed, manufactured, and integrated modifications to a test rig to perform endurance testing on actuator components.
• Developed a test method to identify the presence of mechanical impedance in actuator test rigs.
• Lead a STEM project aimed at teaching younger people mechanical engineering principles.