What Is the Role of a Systems Engineer In an Engineering Organization?

ABSTRACT This article discusses the role of a “specialist” Systems Engineer inside an engineering focused on ensures the engineering parts integrate to achieve the objectives of the whole – and so is embedding a systems approach throughout the organization – trying to “make Systems Engineering the way engineering is done”. In this type of organization all engineers need systems engineering as a core skill (which is part of them becoming T‐shaped“. The specialist Systems Engineer needs to be more π‐shaped, with specialism in the systems approach used to inform and guide all the other disciplines which need to be integrated together. Since systems engineering is an integrating discipline the group of systems engineers must not become ”just another“ technical silo.