Systems & Requirements Engineer

About Watsmen

Watsmen is building an engineering-led industrial group. We connect technical capability, disciplined execution and practical commercial judgement to deliver valuable industrial solutions.

Role Purpose

Translate industrial needs into clear, testable requirements and maintain the evidence connecting them to engineering decisions and delivery acceptance. Identify boundaries, interface obligations and information gaps early, enabling design coordination within the assigned scope and competence.

Key Accountabilities

• Elicit and organise stakeholder needs, operating scenarios and constraints. Deliver a requirements register with source, rationale, owner, priority and acceptance criteria; separate confirmed needs from assumptions and unresolved questions.
• Develop proportionate system descriptions and functional breakdowns. Produce understandable boundary diagrams, interface definitions and dependency records that discipline engineers and delivery partners can use to identify omissions or conflicting expectations.
• Maintain requirements traceability through allocation, design evidence and verification. Provide a matrix showing how requirements will be demonstrated, by whom, using which evidence and at which review.
• Control requirements changes and their effects. Prepare change records identifying affected interfaces, analyses, tests, commercial assumptions and delivery dates, with decisions routed through the approved configuration and technical-authority arrangements.
• Support engineering reviews, tests and handover preparation. Compile evidence packs, track exceptions and record acceptance recommendations accurately; make incomplete, failed or unavailable evidence visible rather than treating document submission as verification.
• Improve the usability of engineering information. Maintain controlled templates, data definitions and lessons from pilot work, checking source quality, version consistency and accessibility so requirements remain useful across teams and jurisdictions.
• Translate customer discovery into testable requirements and acceptance criteria; surface scope uncertainty before pricing and retain reusable requirement patterns for future offers.

First 90 Days

• By day 30: Learn the priority industrial scope and stakeholder landscape; assess existing requirements and documents, then agree a proportionate register structure and initial gap list.
• By day 60: Establish the first reviewable requirements baseline, system boundaries and interface register for an agreed pilot, with owners and verification methods for priority requirements.
• By day 90: Demonstrate traceability from selected needs to design and test evidence; resolve or formally log gaps and publish a practical baseline-maintenance and change-control routine. Show a traceable discovery-to-requirements handoff, with acceptance criteria, pre-pricing uncertainties and reusable patterns.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant engineering degree or equivalent demonstrable formation, with evidence of applying structured requirements work to a technical system or industrial project.
• Ability to turn ambiguous stakeholder statements into measurable requirements, identify assumptions and distinguish a design preference from a genuine acceptance obligation.
• Working competence in requirements traceability, interface analysis, configuration control and verification planning, supported by reviewable examples.
• Clear technical writing and analytical habits, including checking data provenance, identifying contradictions and maintaining accurate records as a design changes.
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines, seek competent review and recognise when local regulatory or professional requirements affect the assigned work.

Desirable Experience

• Experience using a requirements-management, modelling or controlled engineering-information tool.
• Exposure to equipment integration, commissioning evidence or operating procedures in industrial settings.

Authority And Decision Boundaries

• Maintain controlled requirements information, request clarification and prepare baseline or change recommendations within delegated responsibilities.
• The role cannot accept designs, certify compliance, promise performance or sign technical claims without a separate applicable appointment and demonstrated competence.
• Escalate conflicting requirements, missing verification and unsafe assumptions; commercial deadlines do not override appointed technical-authority decisions.

Key Interfaces

Project Engineering Manager; Discipline engineers and appointed technical authorities; Commercial and Contracts teams; Customer, Anchor and delivery-partner technical representatives.

Commercial and delivery owners on customer discovery, scope uncertainty and acceptance evidence.

How Success Is Evidenced

• Quality and completeness of requirement sources, owners and testable acceptance criteria.
• Traceability coverage and timely visibility of unresolved interfaces or changes.
• Reduction in ambiguous requirements and preventable verification or handover gaps.
• Testable customer requirements, visible uncertainty before pricing and useful reuse of accepted requirement patterns.

Activation And Delivery Readiness

Assigned work requires confirmed resources, competent delivery capacity and the applicable approvals. The role operates within its documented delegation; appointment alone does not confer contracting, spending, technical-approval or system-access authority.

Location And Travel

Istanbul, Türkiye. Occasional requirement workshops, supplier reviews and project-site visits as the assigned scope requires; exact frequency will be discussed before appointment.

Employment And Working Arrangements

Full-time employment, with annual performance reviews. Twelve-month renewable contracts where legally appropriate, with probation and renewal terms determined under local law.

Roles are on-site by default. Hybrid or remote working requires prior approval. No relocation assistance or visa support is provided.

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