ILS Engineer

ILS Engineer

Engineering | Hybrid, Telford | Full Time, Perm

About RBSL

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) is a defence engineering company based in the UK. We design, manufacture and support military vehicles used by the British Army and international customers.

Position Overview

As an ILS Engineer, reporting to ILS Lead, 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.

Position Duties and Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the assigned ILS work package
• Practical and theoretical supportability assessments on existing and new systems, Sub-Assemblies & Components. Depending on the role undertaken this will include a number of the following:
  • Supportability Analysis
  • Level of Repair Analysis
  • Spares Ranging & Scaling
  • Whole Life Cost Analysis
  • Logistic Information Repository management and update
  • Obsolescence analysis
• Writing in-depth engineering appraisals and reports, and writing engineering procedures in a precise and logical manner, including the documentation of analyses within the respective Supportability Case
• Providing supportability advice to other engineering and other functional departments
• Working with other engineering departments to influence designs
• Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) data validation and Technical Publications verification
• The evaluation of design and supplier data, and the production of support related data and reports
• Working with the Training capability to 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.

• Must have a good understanding of the support engineering / ILS discipline 
• Must have experience of Def-Stan 00-60 / 00-600 and Defence Logistic Framework (superceeding JSP 886) and their tailoring / application to major defence programmes 
• Experience of ASD S3000L and its application to supportability analysis programmes 
• Must have a working understanding of SHE and product safety
• 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

RBSL strives to be an employer of choice and to foster a culture in which our employees are supported to build a career they can be proud.

Through our contracts to deliver world-class products and support services, we offer great opportunities for personal development and career advancement via specialist technical roles, essential support functions, and broader leadership positions.

In addition, RBSL offer:

• Competitive salaries reviewed each year against market rates
• Annual bonus incentive scheme for all employees
• 37 hours over 4.5 days working week
• Employer pension contributions up to 10%
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Life assurance cover
• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Health cash plan
• Salary sacrifice benefits including cycle to work and electric vehicles schemes
• Access to high street and gym discounts and cashback
• Long Service rewards with additional holiday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits
• Free access to onsite gym

Contact Person: Iwona Kurpiewska