Integrated Logistic Support Engineer

Saab; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in Centurion seeks an Integrated Logistics Support Engineer. This role involves performing ILS analysis tasks, influencing design reliability, and ensuring effective maintenance strategies. Candidates should have a National Technical Diploma in Electronics and experience in logistics engineering and avionics. Proficiency in tools such as Microsoft Excel and ERP systems is essential.

Qualifications

• Knowledge regarding EW and Avionics products and operational environments.
• Experience in Logistics & System Safety Engineering and Technical Authoring.
• Systems Engineering knowledge is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Perform Logistic Support Analysis to capture maintenance data.
• Consolidate maintenance data in a Maintenance Plan.
• Define support and test equipment per program.

Skills

Knowledge regarding EW and Avionics products

Logistics & System Safety Engineering

Critical thinking

Teamwork and collaboration

Oral and written communication skills

Education

Technical qualification (National Technical Diploma – Electronics)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Windchill Quality Solutions

IFS (ERP system)

Job description

Integrated Logistics Support Engineer

This role will perform Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) analysis tasks to develop, in coordination with the system engineering effort and each other, trade-offs which may be required between elements in order to acquire a product / system that is affordable (lowest life-cycle cost), operable, supportable, sustainable, transportable, safe to operate, reliable and environmentally sound which meet and exceed the market / end user requirements.

Your role

• Influence the design in terms of reliability, maintainability, testability and safety.
• Perform a Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) in order to capture all maintenance data in order to support a product / system (maintenance tasks, resources, tooling, personnel, support & test equipment, etc.).
• Define the most suitable and cost-effective Maintenance Concept per program.
• Consolidate all maintenance data in a Maintenance Plan.
• Define the required Support and Test Equipment to effectively support and test the main equipment per product / program.
• Calculate and define the optimum recommended spare parts for a product / system as per a defined operational profile and relevant maintenance level.
• Define the required Packaging, Handling, Storage & Transportation requirements per program.
• Identify and define facility requirements for maintenance and training.
• Participate in failure analysis and relevant corrective actions.
• Perform reliability analysis for products and systems.
• Analyse products / systems by identifying all possible failure modes, the effects of the failures, the causes thereof and possible mitigation actions.
• Expand the Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) to make provision for additional test data to subsequently convert the FMECA to a Failure Catalogue.
• Provide support to the System Engineering environment to perform a Testability Analysis.
• Support Safety Engineer during safety analysis regarding failures, effects / consequences of failures and the probability of failures occurring.
• Support Safety Engineer in the construction of the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
• Authoring of Service Letters, Technical and Service Bulletins per program.
• Authoring of Technical Publications per program on an ad hoc basis when the Technical Author is not available or overloaded.
• Provide the required support to Product Areas and other groups who interface directly with clients.
• Responsible for effective and efficient timesheet management (recovery of hours).
  
  
  

Your profile

Required knowledge:

• Knowledge regarding EW and Avionics products and their operational environments.
  
  
  

Practical Experience:

• Logistics & System Safety Engineering, Technical Authoring and training experience.
• Experienced with MIL-HDBK-217F Notice 2, MIL-STD-1629A, etc.
• Systems Engineering knowledge / experience will be an advantage.
• Management or leadership training will be an advantage.
  
  
  

Person Specification:

• Critical thinking and problem solving.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Professionalism and strong work ethic.
• Oral and written communications skills.
• Thorough and quality orientated.
• Well-structured / organised work methods.
  
  
  

Competencies:

• Specific software tools training (e.g., Windchill Quality Solutions / Risk & Reliability (Relex).
• Microsoft (MS) Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
• IFS (ERP system) or equivalent.
• Eagle LSA Toolset, etc.).
  
  
  

Qualification:

• Technical qualification (Minimum requirement: National Technical Diploma – Electronics).
• Software tools training.