• Question: What is a systems engineer?

    Asked by jazz130red to Stephen - ESA Team on 27 Feb 2020.
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      Stephen Durrant answered on 27 Feb 2020:

      Hi, As a systems engineer I manage and monitor the development and manufacture of the Mechanical Systems and Mechanism on the ExoMars Rover. Whilst doing this I also check to see that the equipment is built to the specifications and that the testing done on each piece of Equipment and the Rover proves this. The Rover is a complex system where all the equipment is connected together and must work properly and this is all done via equipment specifications. At my level as the customer, we also have to make sure that the contracts are in place so that Industry can do the job they are asked to do and get paid for it.

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