ILS Engineering Manager

The benefits we offer you will include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Private healthcare
• Extensive flexible benefit program
• Hybrid working policy
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

About this opportunity:

As an ILS Engineering Manager you will lead and be responsible for a team of ILS engineers to ensure all ILS activities are delivered to requirements, schedule, budget and quality.

Responsibilities:

• Promote and drive team adherence to company values, processes and procedures
• Promote and adhere to Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and best practice
• Ensure efficient delivery of ILS outputs to requirements, schedule, budget and quality
• Leadership and performance management of functional team of up to 10 ILS engineers
• Create a culture for development, innovation and continuous improvement through setting stretching goals for self and teams, rewarding high performance
• Define and maintain appropriate team reporting to support business performance (Metrics - Performance, Schedule, Budget, Quality)
• Provision / prioritisation of appropriate resourcing to support business performance
• Ensure lessons learnt and best practice are shared across the business to support continuous improvement and consistency
• Make timely decisions considering risk and business performance, and act promptly to mobilise resources and team to resolve issues
• Finance management of ILS team budget
• Deliver functional performance to support company financial objectives
• Ensure ILS principles influence early design to minimise costs

Tasks to be done within the responsibility of the role include:

• Allocate appropriate resources to successfully deliver work packages or projects
• Lead regular team meetings to share feedback including performance and metrics
• Support formal project reviews and provide ILS guidance across the business unit.
• Agree ILS functional budget and monitor expenditure to meet outputs
• Produce, or review and approve engineering technical documents
• Produce, or review and approve technical specifications for sub-contract suppliers
• Manage team performance to ensure delivery to requirements, schedule, budget and quality
• Work Package Management to ensure appropriate control and deliverables remain on track
• Conduct Professional Development Reviews and support development of team - Identify development needs and opportunities and provide coaching / training to develop technical capability
• Weekly and Monthly reporting on task progress, issues / blockers, transformation / improvements, risks / uncertainty and resourcing.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

• A broad understanding of ILS and engineering principles
• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Proven leadership experience
• Proven line management experience including performance development
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with energy and enthusiasm at all levels within and outside of the business
• Good IT skills, including Word and Excel
• Basic knowledge of the following international specifications:
• S1000D - Technical Publications
• S2000M - Material Management
• S3000L - Logistic Support Analysis
• S4000A - Scheduled Maintenance Analysis
• S4000M - Maintenance Task Analysis
• S5000F - Operational and Maintenance Data Feedback
• Knowledge/Experience of:
• DefStan 00-600 and/or JSP886
• ASD S Series ILS standards
• DSAT and awareness of the work in progress S6000T - Training and Training Needs Analysis
• Initial Provisioning, Spares Modelling, Codification and Packaging Handling Storage and Transportation
• Availability, Reliability, Maintainability and Testability analysis and its military application or Def Stan 00-40 R&M
• Military publications such as AESP, Air Publications (Def Stan 00-601 Parts 1-4) or IETPs (ASD1000D)
• Configuration Management and Documentation Control.
• ILS elements in addition to the above i.e.:
• Design Interface.
• Maintenance Planning.
• Human Factors.
• Support and Test Equipment.
• Manpower and Personnel.
• Software support.
• Facilities.
• Packaging, Handling, Storage and Transportation.
• Obsolescence Management.
• Disposal Management.
• Awareness of:
• Health and Safety at Work legislation.
• United Kingdom and European Union Disposal Legislation.
• Military support skills and capabilities, procedures and requirements.

Due to the nature of our projects and the UKEO caveat attached, the applicant would need to fulfil the normal in-house BPSS procedure:

Once this is complete, they would be required to undertake the SC process. Each SC is dealt with on its own merits by UKSV.

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