Senior Supportability Engineer

Safran; Little Gaddesden, Tring; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Safran Electrical & Power is seeking a Senior Supportability Engineer for our Pitstone site in Buckinghamshire. The role focuses on delivering excellent aftermarket support, improving whole-life costs, and guiding service readiness plans across projects.

You will lead small project teams, model work packages, and liaise with stakeholders to implement optimal support solutions for customers and platforms.

Qualifications

• A degree or significant experience in aerospace, engineering or automotive.
• Knowledge and use of Supportability, Maintainability, ILS, reliability.
• Comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels.
• Appreciation of working within a regulated industry.
• Ability to derive best support solutions in a complete systems environment.
• Ability to persuade stakeholders using data and analysis evidence bases.
• Comfortable working with demanding customers to define the best ways to support the business.

Responsibilities

• 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 and supportability 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.

Skills

Aerospace

Customer support

Integrated logistics

RAMS

MRO

TAT

Analytical

Life cost modelling

Data analysis

Reliability

Availability

Maintainability

Supportability

Education

Degree in aerospace/engineering

Job description

Senior Supportability 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

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

The Role

As a Senior Supportability 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 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 and supportability 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 Supportability, Maintainability, ILS, reliability
• 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.

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.