ILS Engineer

Ultra Maritime is a global leader in advanced maritime defence solutions, operating at the forefront of innovation to deliver technologies that protect lives, secure nations, and enable a safer, more sustainable world. We have an exciting opportunity for a Supportability Engineer, seeking career growth while developing long-term relationships with our customers and providing support for equipment throughout its design life and beyond.

Our ILS team provides supportability and support solutions consultancy to Ultra's projects, sales, and technology teams. We maximise our customers' capabilities by ensuring our products are supportable and supported at optimum Whole Life Cost. This is an opportunity to grow your career within a progressive, dynamic environment with exposure to ground-breaking technologies and systems, including the world’s first Integrated Sonar System and the market-leading fully digital Hull Mounted Sonar, S2150.

You will work on our team to ensure that our products are designed to be supportable and are supported anywhere in the world. We will challenge and support you in equal measure to nurture your potential as an engineer and will give you the chance to utilise and build your skills across all of the ILS disciplines, including Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability, Human Factors, Training, Lifecycle Engineering, and Support Solution Design.

Working under the mentorship of the head of Support, you will apply sound engineering judgement to ensure products are developed to be supportable, develop the support solution, and acquire the necessary resources for support. You will be conducting ILS work packages across a number of systems and taking ownership of ILS activities where required. The focus of this role is to ensure the supportability of Ultra Maritime products by helping shape the design for support and helping develop the support solution architecture.

• Tailoring the scope and scale of ILS activities to meet the User, Customer, and Ultra’s requirements.
• Working collaboratively with designers to improve the reliability, maintainability, and usability aspects of Ultra's designs.
• Providing input to the development of the optimum support solution for each customer, within the context of a wider product and capability roadmap.
• Completing life cycle cost analyses, level of repair analyses, sparing analyses, failure modes and effects analyses.
• Eliciting and deriving support requirements and proposing verification methods for requirements.
• Developing supportability cases and conducting analyses to provide progressive assurance of support solutions.
• Performing reliability modelling and undertaking maintainability analysis to optimise support arrangements.
• Assessing the human element of systems, including assessing the potential for human error as a contributor to system failures.
• Preparing, or providing input to, technical manuals such as troubleshooting guides or operations and maintenance manuals.
• Assisting with the identification and mitigation of hazards through system hazard analysis.
• Formulating and implementing the obsolescence strategy for a product line.
• Supporting the continuous improvement of processes, policies, and procedures.

A dynamic, professional engineer or technician with experience within a high technology or regulated industry, you will:

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a technical equivalent, or navy, army or air force equivalent in mechanical or electrical, or experience to match.
• Have some knowledge and experience in Reliability & Maintainability – Reliability Prediction, RBDs, FTAs, FMECAs, MTAs, FRACAS/DRACAS, etc.
• Have the ability to review work produced by domain specialists across the others: Integrated Logistics Support – LCC, LORA, sparing, obsolescence, etc.; Operational Analysis & Whole Life Cost Modelling – Business Case Analysis, Availability analysis, etc.; Training Development, Design and Delivery.
• Hold or be capable of achieving Security Clearance (SC) or higher with no caveats.
• Possess a full driving license. This role is office based with occasional travel across Ultra sites and to customer and supplier locations.
• Experience using PTC Windchill, Relyence, or some other modelling software is considered an asset.

In order to achieve your personal and professional goals, you will:

• Display excellent interpersonal skills with a talent for rapidly building rapport with a broad range of internal and external customers from diverse backgrounds.
• Work to resolve conflict wherever it arises, promoting harmony within the team.
• Possess excellent communication skills and display the empathy and skill to adapt your communication style in response to others' needs.
• Be capable of providing mentorship and guidance to less experienced co-workers.

This role requires you to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard Check (BPSS) as a minimum and some roles will require further national security vetting checks. In line with Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided.

More than just a job, we offer a mission. More than just a workplace, we provide the opportunity to protect lives, advance technology, and shape the future of maritime security. As an employee of Ultra Maritime, you will receive:

• Optional 9 day fortnight
• TOIL
• Flexible working hours
• 1pm finish on a Friday
• Annual bonus – dependent on level. Non-managers = 5% and Managers = 10% for example
• Hybrid working for certain job roles.
• Casual dress
• 25 days holiday
• Christmas shut down – use three days of annual leave to cover this
• Option to buy or sell holiday.
• Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
• Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
• 4 x annual salary life cover
• Pension starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee. You can select your employee contribution level from 4% to 70% (providing this sacrifice does not cause your salary to drop below the National Minimum Wage/ National Living Wage).

Ultra Maritime embraces the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. We strive to build an open, inclusive workplace where ideas flourish and every individual can make a meaningful impact. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let the recruitment lead managing your application know.

Together, we deliver cutting-edge solutions that safeguard our oceans and secure a safer world.