Senior ILS Engineer

As a Senior Engineer ILS you will provide direction and guidance for planning, developing, and executing ILS strategies that ensure the long-term supportability, maintainability, and reliability of systems. Working closely with engineering, project management, and customer stakeholders, the Senior Engineer ILS ensures that support requirements are identified, integrated into system design, and sustained throughout the product lifecycle. Influence the design for supportability – Design for Support, ensure the design affords a high level of availability – Support the Design.

Your responsibilities in this role include:

• Develop the production of ILS plans in alignment with project requirements, industry standards, and customer specifications.
• Direct and undertake Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) analyses to optimize system lifecycle performance.
• Support and direct the preparation and maintenance of technical documentation, including Logistics Support Analysis (LSA), Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), and Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
• Support and develop maintenance concepts, provisioning data, spare parts lists, and technical manuals.
• Identify areas of product design which could impact on maintainability of that product.
• Recommend alternative solutions to ensure that the product is easy to maintain in accordance with the customer requirements and expectations.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and lessons learned to enhance logistics processes.
• Promote and adhere to Health, Safety and Environmental best practice.
• Ensure rigour, resilience and continuous improvement in solutions, meeting all regulatory requirements, conforming to specifications, quality and certification requirements.
• Engender a culture for the promotion of Marshall Land Systems core values and ethical business behaviour in a tolerant workplace free from discrimination, violence and harassment.

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Experience in planning and delivery to meet schedules.
• Beneficial to have experience supporting development of engineering solutions through the project lifecycle.
• Experience in the development of technical documentation.

Technical Skills/Education:

• Knowledge of ILS methodologies, standards (e.g., MIL-STD-1388, DEF STAN 00-600, S3000L), and Defence industry practices.
• Sound understanding of ILS principles.
• Good planning and organisation skills.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation.
• Use computer packages e.g. Word, Excel, Microsoft Project, MAX MRP System and Windchill (RELEX).
• Use of ILS software - Eagle, OPUS10, SIMLOX etc.
• Good written and verbal communication to clearly express views and ideas.
• Ability to interact with all levels of staff both internally and externally.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems), Logistics, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• 5 years + of experience in ILS within the Defence or aerospace industry.
• Desirable to have made progress towards achieving professional accreditation.

Additional local needs:

• Flexible and Agile in working remotely and in an office in different environments with the requirement to travel if necessary.
• Candidates will need to complete a BPSS check.
• Ability to work accurately and at pace.

The benefits of this role include:

• Opportunity to play a key role in project engineering development and improvement.
• Progression pathway to Engineering Management.
• Lead ILS teams in integrating complex sub systems into vehicles and base platforms.
• Involvement in multiple deployable and mission critical infrastructure projects.

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.