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.