Senior ILS Engineer

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As a Senior ILS Engineer, you will need to ensure the day to day management and performance/delivery for assigned projects, sub contracts, vendors and/or accounts, whilst applying a depth and breadth of experience relating to complex engineering problems, challenges and issues associated with related work packages.

This is a demanding role, requiring close liaison between Engineering teams, customers and suppliers. Significant drive and energy, strong systems engineering skills, and the ability to deliver a diverse programme to demanding time, target cost and quality requirements are essential attributes to succeed.

The candidate must be a team player who is prepared to work with a multi-site engineering team within RBSL and the customer community. The individual will be required to work across geographical and cultural divides to draw together a comprehensive engineering capability that will derive balanced system solutions.

Position Duties and Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the conduct of the ILS work package, including the coordination and supervision of a team of ILS engineers
• Acting as the primary point of contact for the supply chain with regard to ILS deliverables and their conduct of supportability analysis as required by their statement of work
• Practical and theoretical supportability assessments on existing and new systems, Sub Assemblies & Components. This will include:

• Supportability Analysis
• Level of Repair Analysis
• Spares Ranging & Scaling
• Whole Life Cost Analysis

• Providing supportability advice to other engineering and other functional departments
• Working with other engineering departments to influence designs
• Leading and managing support specialists to produce support engineering deliverables
• Undertake the relevant people processes (such as performance reviews) for own direct reports
• Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) data validation and Technical Publications verification
• Defining support engineering requirements for supplied items/services
• The evaluation of design and supplier data, and the production of support related data and reports
• Working with the Training capability to create/inform training impact statements/cases
• Working with Support Engineers to create equipment supportability impact statements/cases
• Working with Safety Engineers to ensure that support products are ALARP.

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS YOU SHOULD HAVE

• Degree-qualified in a relevant engineering discipline with post-graduate engineering experience in a suitable engineering role, including extensive supervisory experience in a technical environment.
• Must have a good understanding of the support engineering / ILS discipline (Essential)
• Must have significant experience of Def-Stan 00- and Defence Logistic Framework (superceeding JSP 886) and their tailoring / application to major defence programmes (Essential)
• Experience of ASD S3000L and its application to supportability analysis programmes (Highly Desirable)
• Must have a working understanding of SHE and product safety (Essential)
• Previous experience of leading a team would be advantageous (Highly Desireable)
• Recent British Army Armoured Fighting Vehicle management experience (Highly Desirable)
• Good listener and communicator who effectively conveys information by all modes at all levels within the project, function, customer and supplier organisations
• Computer-literate performer with software proficiency covering a wide variety of applications, especially the Microsoft Office suite
• Be open to new ways of resolving issues and the possibility of incorporation of new technology through research to replace existing schemes where appropriate
• Innovative problem-solver who can generate workable solutions and resolve complaints
• Highly motivated self-starter who takes initiative with minimal supervision
• Enthusiastic, knowledge-hungry learner, eager to meet challenges and quickly assimilate new concepts
• Ability to work effectively with anyone with different skill sets, personalities, work styles, or motivation level.
• Ability to build trust, find common ground, have empathy, and ultimately build good relationships with people at all levels in both customer / supplier and RBSL communities.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

We want RBSL to be an employer of choice and for our employees to build a career they can be proud of with us. Through our contracts to deliver world-class products and support, we are able to offer great opportunities for personal development and career advancement through specialist technical roles, essential support functions and leadership positions.

In addition, RBSL offer:

Competitive salaries reviewed each year against market

Hybrid and flexible working over a 4.5 day week

Annual incentive scheme

Life assurance

5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays

Long Service rewards with additional holiday

Holiday purchase scheme

Health cash plan

Employer pension contributions up to 10%

Salary sacrifice benefits including cycle to work and electric vehicles schemes

Access to high street and gym discounts and cashback

Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits