Manager Integrated Product Support

Saab UK; Sønderborg; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Saab Danmark A/S in Denmark seeks an experienced Manager to lead the Integrated Product Support (IPS/ILS) and system-safety activities across the product lifecycle. You will steer a multidisciplinary team of about 20 professionals and collaborate with engineering, project management, operations, customers and suppliers to embed supportability and safety in system design.

The ideal candidate has a university degree in engineering or a related field, proven leadership of technical specialists, and

Qualifications

• Relevant university degree in engineering, logistics, systems engineering, or safety engineering.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, preferably managing technical specialists or multidisciplinary teams.
• Good understanding of systems engineering, configuration management and project delivery.
• Good understanding of IPS/ILS and system-safety principles, methods and deliverables.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, risks and competing project priorities.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills.
• Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary IPS/ILS and system-safety team of ~20 employees.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization and lessons learned across projects and organization.
• Define and implement IPS/ILS and system-safety strategies, plans, processes and governance across multiple projects.
• Ensure that supportability, availability, reliability, maintainability, safety and lifecycle-cost requirements are embedded into system design from an early stage.
• Oversee activities such as: Integrated Logistics Support planning, LSA, RAMT, maintenance-task analysis and maintenance planning.
• Provisioning and spare-parts optimization; technical publications and product support data.
• Lifecycle-cost and supportability analysis.
• Lead and govern safety activities including hazard analysis and safety-case development.
• Support bids and proposals by defining support and safety concepts, work packages, estimates and delivery plans.

Skills

Leadership

Systems engineering

Configuration management

IPS/ILS

System safety

Budgets & schedules

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Project delivery

Education

Engineering or related degree

Tools

S-Series specifications SX000i

S1000D

S2000M

S3000L

Job description

Do you want to work in a company that develops systems to help keep people and society safe?

We are looking for an experienced and people-focused Manager for our Integrated Product Support (IPS/ILS) and System Safety.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team of approximately 20 professionals in the development and execution of our IPS/ILS and system-safety activities throughout the product lifecycle-from concept and design through production, deployment, operation, maintenance and disposal. Working closely with engineering, project management, operations, customers and suppliers, you will ensure that supportability and safety are embedded in system design and project decisions.

Your Role:

• Lead, develop and motivate a multidisciplinary IPS/ILS and system-safety team of approximately 20 employees.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization and lessons learned across projects and organization.
• Manage scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, risks, priorities, quality and deliverables within the function.
• Define and implement IPS/ILS and system-safety strategies, plans, processes and governance across multiple projects.
• Ensure that supportability, availability, reliability, maintainability, safety and lifecycle-cost requirements are incorporated into system design from an early stage.

You will oversee activities such as:

• Integrated Logistics Support planning
• Logistics Support Analysis (LSA)
• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Testability (RAMT)
• Maintenance-task analysis and maintenance planning
• Provisioning and spare-parts optimization
• Technical publications and product support data
• Lifecycle-cost and supportability analysis

We expect you to lead and govern system-safety activities throughout the lifecycle, including:

• Safety planning and definition of safety-management plans
• Hazard identification, analysis and risk assessment
• Development and management of safety requirements

Together with your team, you will support bids and proposals by defining support and safety concepts, work packages, estimates and delivery plans. You ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, security, export-control and safety requirements.

Your profile

• Relevant university degree in engineering, logistics, systems engineering, safety engineering or a comparable discipline- or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, preferably managing technical specialists or multidisciplinary teams.
• Good understanding of systems engineering, configuration management and project delivery.
• Good understanding of IPS/ILS and system-safety principles, methods and deliverables, with the ability to lead and support subject-matter experts in these disciplines.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, risks and competing project priorities.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills.
• Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

As an ideal candidate you will bring:

Knowledge of, or practical experience with the ASD S-Series specifications is considered an advantage, particularly:

• SX000i - International guide for the use of the S-Series specifications
• S1000D - Technical publications
• S2000M - Material management
• S3000L - Logistics Support Analysis

Practical understanding of system safety in complex hardware / software based systems.

Familiarity with system safety and reliability engineering principles, including MIL-STD-882E, FMECA, hazard analysis and safety-case development.

What can you expect from us?

Saab Danmark is a company that is growing and are in a transition phase to develop more product focused deliveries. This gives you a great opportunity to take part in shaping the future system designs and deliveries to a demanding customer segment. You can expect:

• A key leadership role in a technically advanced defense environment.
• The opportunity to influence the safety and supportability of products and systems across their complete lifecycle.
• A skilled and committed multidisciplinary team.
• Professional development and opportunities to grow within the organization.
• Focus on our teams, good collaboration and giving our employees the ability to take ownership of their tasks.

Candidates must be able to obtain a security clearance by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service. This entails that candidates, as a minimum, have had residency within NATO/EU for the last 7 years.

About Saab Danmark A/S

Saab in Denmark is part of the Saab Group with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. At the same time, Saab Danmark is an independent legal company with a flat organisational structure. Our main business area is delivering integrated communication solutions to military markets in Denmark and abroad.

You can find further information about our integrated communication solution TactiCall, at www.saab.com/naval.