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:
o S1000D - Technical Publications
o S2000M - Material Management
o S3000L - Logistic Support Analysis
o S4000A - Scheduled Maintenance Analysis
o S4000M - Maintenance Task Analysis
o S5000F - Operational and Maintenance Data Feedback
* Knowledge/Experience of:
o DefStan 00-600 and/or JSP886
o ASD S Series ILS standards
o DSAT and awareness of the work in progress S6000T - Training and Training Needs Analysis
o Initial Provisioning, Spares Modelling, Codification and Packaging Handling Storage and Transportation
o Availability, Reliability, Maintainability and Testability analysis and its military application or Def Stan 00-40 R&M
o Military publications such as AESP, Air Publications (Def Stan 00-601 Parts 1-4) or IETPs (ASD1000D)
o Configuration Management and Documentation Control.
o 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:
o Health and Safety at Work legislation.
o United Kingdom and European Union Disposal Legislation.
o 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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