ILS Engineer

Fortress Recruit is supporting a leading Defence Services business in the recruitment of an ILS Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis. This is an excellent opportunity for an analytical engineering professional to play a key role in supporting a major asset refresh programme, while helping shape long term sustainment and asset management decisions through engineering data, modelling and analysis.Working across Engineering, Asset Management, Projects and Supply Chain, you'll use real world and theoretical engineering data to model reliability, supportability and sustainment options, providing insight that helps inform investment decisions and reduce long term asset risk.Key responsibilities will include:Producing Reliability Block Diagrams and associated reliability reports to verify MTBF and MTBR assumptionsAnalysing engineering and asset data to identify trends, risks and opportunitiesDeveloping Excel and Power BI models to support engineering, asset management and project decisionsProviding analytical support to a major asset refresh programmeSupporting spares ranging and scaling activity to optimise spend and reduce supply and availability riskModelling different sustainment options using real world and theoretical dataSupporting whole life cost analysis and assessing the financial impact of engineering and asset management decisionsProviding clear recommendations and technical insight to Asset Managers and wider stakeholdersWorking with Engineering, Supply Chain, Service Management and Project teams to identify and manage asset risksTo be successful in this role, you will have:Experience in ILS, Asset Management, Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Safety Engineering or a related disciplineDemonstrable experience in engineering data analysis, modelling or analyticsExperience producing or interrogating Reliability Block Diagrams and reliability analysisKnowledge of MTBF, MTBR, reliability, availability and maintainability conceptsAdvanced Excel skills with experience building engineering, financial or analytical modelsExperience working with large datasets and translating analysis into meaningful recommendationsAn understanding of whole life costing and lifecycle supportStrong analytical and problem solving skillsThe ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholdersEligibility for SC clearance (5 years' UK residency with no visa or sponsorship requirement)Experience within Air Traffic Management, defence, aerospace, aviation or another safety critical engineering environment would be advantageous. Experience with Power BI, ServiceNow, SAP, FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis or other engineering modelling tools would also be beneficial.The role is offered on a full-time basis, 37 hours a week in Fareham, Hampshire and offers hybrid working arrangements. The salary is offering up to £47,500 DoE, plus bonus and benefits package as well as an opportunity to train and develop further within the role. #J-18808-Ljbffr