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.