R&M Engineer, Mobile Fires Platform (Hybrid)

Quast Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 77,000; Part time

Job summary

Quast Ltd in Bristol is seeking an experienced Reliability & Maintainability Engineer to provide specialist R&M engineering support to the Mobile Fires Platform programme. The role focuses on reliability, maintainability, dependability, risk management and through-life support, with office-based hybrid working at Abbey Wood.

You will review documentation, assess contractor artefacts, produce reports, and support R&M evidence, risk mitigation and design decisions.

Qualifications

• SMEs in reliability and maintainability engineering on defence programmes.
• Ability to review complex R&M artefacts against standards and contractual requirements.
• Experience producing performance reports, trend analyses and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Review R&M documentation to define technical deliverables and update documentation across multiple systems.
• Technically review and assess contractor-supplied R&M artefacts against contractual requirements and relevant standards.
• Produce review reports identifying compliance, risks, issues and recommendations.
• Support the development, maintenance and assurance of R&M Cases and supporting evidence.
• Provide informed recommendations on the achievability of R&M requirements and through-life support assumptions.
• Analyse contractor and trial-derived R&M data to assess achievement against contractual and design requirements.
• Produce R&M performance reports, trend analyses and dashboards.
• Identify reliability growth opportunities and supportability improvements.
• Provide technical recommendations to inform design, support and acceptance decisions.
• Assess contractor compliance with applicable R&M standards, policies and contractual obligations.
• Identify, report and manage non-conformances and associated programme risks.
• Provide technical advice on the impact of compliance shortfalls on performance, safety, supportability and certification activities.
• Support engineering governance and assurance reviews.
• Identify and manage R&M-related risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• Develop mitigation strategies and recovery plans for emerging R&M concerns.
• Provide technical input to programme risk registers and governance forums, escalating significant R&M risks that may affect cost, schedule, performance or safety.
• Support the planning, execution and assessment of R&M demonstration, verification and validation activities.
• Review and assess trial and test evidence against agreed acceptance criteria.
• Provide technical advice to support acceptance, certification and in-service decisions.
• Identify shortfalls arising from trials and testing and recommend corrective actions.
• Contribute to dependability performance reviews and Design Review activities.
• Undertake root cause analysis of significant reliability and maintainability issues.
• Identify and track corrective actions arising from design weaknesses.
• Recommend improvements to reliability, maintainability, availability and through-life support performance.

Skills

Reliability

Maintainability

R&M Analysis

Risk Management

Documentation Review

Job description

Quast Ltd in Bristol is seeking an experienced Reliability & Maintainability Engineer to provide specialist R&M engineering support to the Mobile Fires Platform programme. The role focuses on reliability, maintainability, dependability, risk management and through-life support, with office-based hybrid working at Abbey Wood.

You will review documentation, assess contractor artefacts, produce reports, and support R&M evidence, risk mitigation and design decisions.