Senior ILS Engineer

Safran S.A.; Howlett Cross; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early finish Fridays

Annual bonus

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Professional development

Onsite amenities

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

Safran Electrical & Power in Pitstone, Buckinghamshire, invites applications for a Senior ILS Engineer. The role focuses on providing excellent aftermarket support and optimizing whole-life costs by influencing design and service readiness.

The successful candidate will handle ILS analyses, plan work packages, and lead small project teams to deliver robust support solutions. The position sits in a hybrid arrangement with diverse opportunities across programs and customers, emphasizing

Qualifications

• Aerospace background or significant experience in engineering or automotive
• Knowledge and use of ILS, reliability and maintainability
• Comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels
• Appreciation of constraints of working within a regulated industry
• Ability to derive best support solutions in a complete systems environment
• Ability to persuade stakeholders to change approach using data and analysis evidence
• Comfortable working with demanding customers to define best support approaches
• Evidence of written English at interview stage

Responsibilities

• Ensure complete support and service solutions to customers in aftermarket
• Collaborate with program teams for successful entry into service and ongoing support for new products
• Produce and update service support readiness plans, conducting ILS analysis including maintainability and TAT analyses
• Ensure profitability from parts and services provided
• Plan ILS work packages of varying sizes and manage to completion
• Liaise with key stakeholders to determine best support solution for customer or platform
• Lead project teams of 1–5 people

Job description

Senior ILS Engineer

Pitstone, Tring, Hertfordshire

Hybrid

Skills: Aerospace, Customer support experience, Integrated logistics support, RAMS, MRO, TAT Aftermarket, Analytical, Life cost modelling, Data analysis, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Supportability/Safety

Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you—both in and out of work, including:

• Early finish on Fridays
• Competitive salary and annual bonus and pay review
• 25 days' holiday + bank holidays (option to buy/sell)
• Strong Pension scheme and life assurance
• Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring
• Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant, bicycle storage, showers
• Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies

Safran – Here, we craft excellence together.

At Safran, excellence is a journey – and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision

We are looking for passionate individuals to join our Engineering Product Support team as a Senior ILS Engineer at our Pitstone site in Buckinghamshire.

The Role

As a Senior ILS Engineer at Safran Electrical & Power you will offer excellent support and service solutions to our customers in the aftermarket, optimising elements of the product design to enable the provision of complete support to our global customer base. You will support on various projects, producing and updating service support readiness plans. You will play a key role in influencing the commercial offering, optimising whole life costs. You will model and plan ILS work packages of varying sizes, leading small project teams of varying disciplines.

• Ensure we offer complete support and service solutions to our customers in the aftermarket
• Work with program teams to provide all elements for a successful entry into service and ongoing support for new products
• Produce and update service support readiness plans, conducting ILS analysis including maintainability assessments and Turn Around Time (TAT) analysis
• Ensure continued profitability from the parts and services that we provide to our customer base
• Plan ILS work packages of various sizes and manage them to completion
• Liaise with various key stakeholders to determine the best support solution for a customer or platform
• Lead project teams of around 1 to 5 people

Desirable Experience

We are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, but we're also keen to help people grow and develop in this role. If you have some or all of the following, we’d love to hear from you:

• A degree or significant experience in areas such as aerospace, engineering or automotive
• Knowledge and use of ILS, reliability and maintainability
• Comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels
• Appreciation of the constraints of working within a regulated industry
• Ability to derive the best support solutions in a complete systems environment, thinking equally in both technical and commercial spaces
• Ability to persuade stakeholders to change approach when required, using data and analysis evidence bases
• Comfortable working with demanding customers to jointly define the best ways to support the business
• Evidence of written English at interview stage.

At Safran, we understand that diversity and inclusion make teams stronger and more effective, and as an organisation, we are committed to fair and equitable employment practices for everyone.

We also know that some candidates may be put off applying for jobs where they don't meet 100% of the criteria outlined in the advert, however, we encourage anybody to apply if you can demonstrate a variety of skills and experience relevant to the requirements of this role. Please let us know if you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to the application or hiring process that may better facilitate your participation.