At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead ILS activities for a complex defence electronics programme and ensure supportability.
- Company: Join a leading defence organisation focused on innovative electronic systems.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with significant career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in defence technology while working with cutting-edge systems.
- Qualifications: Experience in ILS management and strong knowledge of reliability engineering principles.
We are seeking a seasoned ILS / IPS practitioner to drive the supportability and sustainment of a complex defence electronics programme.
This is a specialist technical management rolefocused on reliability, maintainability, and through-life engineering for software-intensive electronic systemsrather than a general supply chain management position.
- Contract Duration: 6 Months
- IR35 Status: Outside IR35
- Day rate: Up to £550 per day
- Working Pattern: Hybrid (1 day per week on-site, Isle of White, negotiable)
- Security Clearance: Must hold or be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the overall planning, coordination, and delivery of all ILS activities across the programme lifecycle.
- Formulate and maintain ILS strategies, management plans, schedules, and associated deliverables.
- Collaborate closely with systems, software, hardware, safety, and reliability engineering teams to integrate supportability considerations early.
- Define and optimise long-term maintenance, support, and sustainment solutions.
- Undertake and coordinate technical analyses, including FMECA, FRACAS, reliability predictions, and maintainability assessments.
- Drive Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA), Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), spares modelling, and support equipment specification.
- Address software supportability requirements, including configuration control, release management, fault diagnosis, updates, and obsolescence planning.
- Proactively manage ILS risks, supplier performance, deliverables, and customer reporting.
- Act as the principal ILS representative to programme stakeholders, Tier 1 partners, and the end customer.
- Required Skills and Experience
- Significant experience acting as an ILS Manager, ILS Lead, IPS Lead, or Principal Supportability Engineer.
- Proven track record delivering ILS across complex defence, military, or secure electronic systems (experience with land systems or mission systems is highly advantageous).
- Strong practical knowledge of reliability and maintainability (R&M) engineering principles.
- Direct experience supporting complex, integrated hardware and software architectures.
- Comprehensive understanding of relevant defence ILS/IPS standards and guidance.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and technical reporting skills.
- Flexibility to work on-site on the South Coast 1 day per week.
- Security Requirement: Must hold, or be eligible to successfully undergo, UK SC Security Clearance.
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