Through Life Equipment Support

National Armaments Director Group; Lossiemouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Permanent contract

Job summary

The National Armaments Director Group seeks a Through Life Equipment Support professional to coordinate Ground Support Equipment (GSE) support across the E-7 Wedgetail and P-8 Poseidon programmes at Lossiemouth. Regular in-person attendance (about 60% of the week) is required to foster collaboration with military colleagues and industry partners.

You will oversee lifecycle sustainment, obsolescence and reliability matters, and help implement supportability improvements to keep equipment

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Asset Management Systems or Through Life Support services.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others.
• Ability to investigate and solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate supportability bodies of evidence and reports to ensure risk management controls are considered in business areas and with customers and suppliers.
• Manage verification and validation of ILS process delivery to set equipment support policy directives.
• Communicate through life logistic support data repositories and information access rights.
• Adhere to governance and assurance policies to ensure cost affordability, supportability and defence envelopes.

Skills

Asset Management

Through Life Support

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Job description

Working Pattern: Full time, Job Share, Flexible Working

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Description for Through Life Equipment Support

Are you interested in supporting some of Defence’s key aircraft capabilities?

As a Through Life Equipment Support (TLS) professional, you’ll coordinate support for Ground Support Equipment (GSE) across the E-7 Wedgetail and P-8 Poseidon programmes, helping to ensure equipment remains safe, supportable and available to meet operational requirements.

Working closely with military colleagues, industry partners and wider stakeholders, you’ll support the development, procurement, delivery and commissioning of GSE throughout its lifecycle.

You’ll coordinate maintenance and sustainment activity, manage obsolescence and reliability issues, and identify supportability risks and opportunities for improvement. Through effective Through Life Support, you’ll play an important role in supporting aircraft availability and maintaining operational capability.

We champion flexible ways of working. Regular in-person attendance is required (this is expected to be approximately 60% of your working week) to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance and business need. Initially, you may be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with the site, the team, and your role.

What you’ll be doing

• Coordinate supportability bodies of evidence and reports, for escalating mitigation and supportability risk management controls, to ensure everyone, including assurance and policy owner inputs, are fully considered in their business areas and with their customers and suppliers, for submitting well-argued supportability cases for business endorsement.
• Manage the verification and validation of ILS process delivery to ensure the final pre-position and optimal levels of supply support investments for setting equipment support policy directives in how the in-service maintenance and supply chain arrangements will be implemented into service.
• Communicate the through life logistic support technical data information repositories, including content, structure, data module formats, and keeping everyone informed on the information/asset access rights and intellectual property design/repair restrictions that may apply.
• Adhere to governance and assurance policies and procedures, to their assigned business areas, contributing to capability support solutions being cost affordable, supportable and within business and Defence assurance envelopes.

Person specification

To be successful with your application, you'll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Lead Criterion: Experience in delivering Asset Management Systems and/or knowledge in delivering Through Life Support services/systems or associated disciplines (Project Management, Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Management, Operations Management)
• Experience of stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in working collaboratively with others.
• Ability to investigate and solve problems.

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Core Behaviour 1: Managing a Quality Service
• Core Behaviour 2: Communicating and Influencing
• Technical Competence 1: Continuous Improvement to Optimise Support - Supervised Practitioner
• Technical Competence 2: Develop and Implement a Support Solution - Practitioner