ILS Engineer – Defence Systems & Reliability

Thales; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

28 days annual leave

Buy additional leave

Volunteering day

Job summary

Thales is seeking an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Engineer for our Belfast site to ensure supportability is designed into products from the early lifecycle stages. You will work across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions that optimise availability, maintainability, reliability, and whole life cost.

You will carry out SA and R&M tasks, develop ILS plans, provide input to bids, analyse in-service data, and manage ILS risks across programmes while collaborating with stakeholders and

Qualifications

• Degree qualifications in Engineering, Systems Engineering or related discipline, or HND Engineering with experience.
• Experience as a Supportability or Reliability Engineer with understanding of R&M principles.
• Experience preparing formal ILS documentation and deliverables.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent organisation and ability to manage competing priorities.
• UK SC clearance or eligible; full UK driver’s licence; fluent English.
• Familiar with tools and databases such as Reliability Workbench and MS Office.
• Familiar with UK MoD Defence Standards.

Responsibilities

• Carry out detailed Supportability Analysis (SA) and Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) tasks.
• Ensure current capability meets program supportability needs.
• Work within Systems Engineering to ensure support is considered and addressed.
• Continuously improve program supportability engineering performance.
• Develop and maintain ILS-related plans per programme and customer requirements.
• Provide ILS inputs to short notice bids and address ad-hoc ILS queries.
• Analyse in-service data and recommend improvements to R&M and ops performance.
• Identify and manage ILS risks, issues and opportunities throughout the lifecycle.
• Produce Whole Life Costs (WLC) data.
• Engage stakeholders to conduct Level of Repair Analysis (LORA).
• Plan and conduct Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA).
• Manage DRACAS process and report at DRBs for monitored programmes.

Skills

Strong communication

Stakeholder engagement

Problem solving

Fluent English

Education

Engineering degree or HND in relevant field

Tools

Reliability Workbench

MS Office

Job description

Thales is seeking an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Engineer for our Belfast site to ensure supportability is designed into products from the early lifecycle stages. You will work across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions that optimise availability, maintainability, reliability, and whole life cost.

You will carry out SA and R&M tasks, develop ILS plans, provide input to bids, analyse in-service data, and manage ILS risks across programmes while collaborating with stakeholders and