ILS Engineer – Defense Vehicle & MRO Programs

Confidential Careers; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 340,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers seeks an experienced Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Lead for Saudi defense programs. You will lead maintenance concepts, spares planning, and FRACAS processes, coordinating with OEMs, procurement, and engineering to sustain mission readiness.

Requirements include a strong background in ILS, product support analysis, reliability/maintainability, obsolescence management, and data-driven decision-making. Travel to customer sites may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Hands-on experience in Integrated Logistics Support, Product Support Analysis, FRACAS, reliability, maintainability and obsolescence management for complex systems.
• Working knowledge of MIL-HDBK-502A, MIL-HDBK-2155, SAE GEIA-STD-0007, IEC 62402, IEC 60812 and SAE GEIA-STD-0009.
• Experience in failure investigation, root-cause analysis, FMEA/FMECA and maintenance-data trending using MTBF, MTTR, downtime and OA.
• Knowledge of maintenance-task analysis, LORA, RCM, spares analysis, manuals, drawings and records, with CMMS/ERP data and Excel/Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement maintenance concepts and level-of-repair requirements aligned with customer doctrine and MRO workflows.
• Define and optimise spare-parts, tools and workshop equipment for each platform variant.
• Establish and operate a closed-loop FRACAS process from failure reporting to formal closure.
• Analyse operational and maintenance data to monitor reliability and downtime, recommending improvements.
• Manage obsolescence monitoring and mitigation through sourcing, repair development, lifetime buys or redesign.

Skills

FRACAS

Reliability analysis

Maintainability analysis

Obsolescence management

Data analysis

Root-cause analysis

CMMS/ERP

Stakeholder coordination

Technical writing

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering or related engineering

Tools

Excel

Power BI

CMMS/ERP

Job description

Confidential Careers seeks an experienced Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Lead for Saudi defense programs. You will lead maintenance concepts, spares planning, and FRACAS processes, coordinating with OEMs, procurement, and engineering to sustain mission readiness.

Requirements include a strong background in ILS, product support analysis, reliability/maintainability, obsolescence management, and data-driven decision-making. Travel to customer sites may be required.