ILS Lead Engineer

At OMNIA Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations into a single consortium to delivery one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world.

OMNIA Training will redefine the British Army’s collective training, standing up as the Army’s Strategic Training Partner. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you.

OMNIA Training is primed by Raytheon UK, but all five partners (Raytheon, Rheinmetall, Capita, Skyral and Cervus) are key to delivering the scope of the contract. Supporting innovation, Rheinmetall Electronics UK (REUK) is entrusted with the trialling and acceptance of new products into the Army training system.

This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA Training’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.

The Role:

This role is the ILS Lead Engineer, who is responsible for the OMNIA ILS activities on behalf of the Configuring Service.

Reporting:

This position reports directly to the Configuring Service Lead.

Job Description:

Lead the delivery of REUK’s Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities within the OMNIA ACTS programme, supporting Army Collective Training Service (ACTS) capabilities across Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) environments. The ILS Lead Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering REUK’s allocated ILS workshare, ensuring that ILS activities, documentation and supportability outputs are developed to the required quality, schedule and engineering standards. The role provides technical leadership to ILS Engineers, while remaining hands-on in the development, review and assurance of ILS artefacts where required.

Working closely with OMNIA consortium partners, OEMs, Engineering teams, Delivery Teams and Army stakeholders, the role ensures REUK’s ILS activities integrate effectively with the wider ACTS support solution. The role also coordinates and assures ILS activities delivered by REUK’s subcontractors, ensuring applicable ILS requirements are understood, deliverables are reviewed, and subcontractor outputs are effectively integrated into REUK’s overall ACTS ILS workshare.

The ILS Lead Engineer will support the introduction of new capabilities while maintaining effective support arrangements for legacy systems, applying evidence-based approaches to improve availability, maintainability and through-life support.

Success in this role requires an experienced and pragmatic ILS professional who can balance technical delivery with leadership responsibilities, coordinate across multiple stakeholders, and provide practical supportability solutions within a complex defence engineering environment.

Skills Required:

• Integrated Logistic Support Leadership: Demonstrable experience leading ILS activities within complex engineering programmes, while remaining capable of producing, reviewing and assuring ILS deliverables directly.
• Through-life Support Engineering: Strong understanding of ILS principles including support concepts, maintenance planning, provisioning, technical documentation, obsolescence management and supportability analysis.
• Technical Leadership: Experience providing technical guidance, mentoring engineers or specialists, reviewing engineering outputs and supporting resolution of complex technical issues.
• ILS Documentation and Deliverables: Experience developing and assuring ILS artefacts throughout acquisition, integration, service introduction and in-service support phases.
• Supplier and Stakeholder Management: Experience working with customers, suppliers, OEMs and multidisciplinary teams to coordinate supportability activities and achieve agreed outcomes.
• Supply Chain and Subcontractor Management: Experience coordinating ILS activities across suppliers and subcontractors, including requirement flow-down, review of deliverables and integration of supportability information into wider programme outputs.
• Data-led Supportability: Experience using operational data, maintenance information or reliability trends to support evidence-based decisions relating to availability, maintainability and lifecycle support.
• Change and Transition: Experience supporting the transition of new capabilities into service while maintaining effective support arrangements for existing systems.

Desirable:

• Experience supporting military simulation within either Live, Virtual, and or Constructive (LVC) training systems.
• Knowledge of Army training and support environments.
• C2 system experience, such as Bowman, Sitaware and TAK.
• Experience with Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) analysis, Logistic Support Analysis (LSA), or Level of Repair Analysis (LORA).
• Knowledge of configuration management and technical publications.
• Experience managing obsolescence within complex electronic systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted or hybrid training systems.
• Working knowledge of IP networking and communications technologies sufficient to understand supportability impacts.
• Experience with Tactical Engagement Simultation (TES) instrumentation, targetry or associated data paths.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.

 

Personal Attributes

We are looking for individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’. You’ll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won’t let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you’ll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You won’t necessarily have a military background, but you’ll understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.

 

We want REUK to be the employer you choose to build your career with. We have lots of opportunity to grow as our business continues to grow.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace for all.

We are proud supporters of the Armed Forces Community. We welcome applications from Veterans, Reservists, Cadet Force Adult Volunteers and military spouses and partners.

We are passionate about finding the right people to join us and we want you to be proud to work with us. Our vision is to become a recognised and respected solution provider while delivering high-technology, high reliability & high-quality products and systems.

• 25 Days holiday plus Bank holidays
• Flexible Working
• 4-times Death-in-Service Scheme (3 months of service)
• BUPA Healthcare & Dental-Care Insurance (after successful completion of probation period)
• Long Service Rewards with additional holidays
• Enhanced Employer Pension contributions of 6.8%
• Salary sacrifice schemes for Cycle to Work
• Excellent Training Opportunities
• Recommend a friend scheme
• Buying & Selling of Annual Leave
• Staff social events throughout the year
• Recognition for your work

Due to our pre-employment checks, we require applicants to have lived in the UK for at least 5 years.

To apply, please send your CV to sam.pollard@rheinmetall.com