Through Life Support (TLS) Engineer

JAM Recruitment Ltd; Little Gaddesden; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

JAM Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Through Life Support Engineer (TLS Engineer) in Hertfordshire. The role is for six months inside IR35, focusing on engineering investigations to support on-time delivery and resolve customer technical queries.

You will be the focal point for engineering to operations, ensuring structured action plans, and maintaining high technical quality across the team and external engineers.

Qualifications

• Mechanical/Automotive/Aeronautical Engineering degree or equivalent.
• Recent rotating machinery experience.
• Strong mechanical design background/understanding.
• Self-sufficient and motivated with clear communication at all levels.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet program deadlines.
• Extensive design experience with rotating equipment, shafts, bearings, seals, structures.
• Experienced with state-of-the-art 3D CAD software.

Responsibilities

• Be the focal point for engineering to operations and product support within SEP to maintain status and priority information for stakeholders.
• Ensure engineering investigation action plans are well structured, managed and substantiated for quick program decisions.
• Be accountable for the technical quality of their work and that of others they oversee.
• Represent the engineering function at daily production escalation stand-ups to minimise line stops.
• Build and maintain relationships with all key stakeholders and Engineering for effective communication.
• Align with Configuration Management and participate in change management reviews for in-service modifications.

Skills

Rotating machinery

Mechanical design

Communication

Work under pressure

Self-motivated

Design experience (rotating equipment)

Education

Mechanical/Automotive/Aeronautical Engineering degree

Tools

3D CAD software

Job description

Through Life Support Engineer (TLS Engineer)

Pitstone, Hertfordshire

Inside IR35

6 months

You will be the focal point for any technical Engineering investigation support requirements to support on time delivery of product / customer technical queries.

Key responsibilities & duties

• To be the focal for engineering to operations and product support within SEP to maintain status and priority information so that stakeholders have a clear vision of engineering activities relevant to them.
• To make sure engineering investigation action plans are well structured, managed and substantiated to enable clear and quick program decisions to be made to avoid line stops.
• Accountable for the technical quality of the work delivered by themselves and other less senior or external engineers assigned to them to support their work.
• Will represent the engineering function at daily production escalation stand-up meetings (module QRQC) to provide proactive engineering support and engineering action feedback to minimise line stops.
• Build & maintain good working relationship between all key stakeholders and Engineering function to allow effective and efficient communication.
• To maintain close alignment with the Configuration Management team and participate in the required change management board reviews to make sure in-service product modifications are properly addressed and controlled.

Requirements

• A Mechanical, Automotive or Aeronautical Engineering degree or equivalent qualification
• Must have recent rotating machinery experience
• Must have a mechanical design background/understanding
• Must be self-sufficient and largely self-motivated.
  • Ability to communicate clearly through written and verbal means to all levels of staff e.g. direct reports, interact with other Engineering teams and the external customer.
  • Ability to work under pressure to meet program deadlines
  • Extensive Design experience esp. rotating equipment, shaft, bearings seals, structures etc.
• Experienced state of the art 3D CAD software.