ILS Engineer

Sonovision UK is a leading provider of Engineering Support Services to clients. Our experts help our clients in the Energy, Aerospace, Military and Commercial Sectors achieve time-to-market objectives and cost goals.

The role:

Sonovision UK has an exciting opportunity for a Supportability Engineer, seeking an exciting new opportunity for career growth. We pride ourselves on developing long term relationships with our customers, providing support for equipment throughout its design life and often beyond.

Our ILS solution provides supportability and support solutions consultancy to our customers projects, sales and technology teams. We maximise their capabilities by ensuring products are supportable and supported at optimum Whole Life Cost.

We will challenge and support you in equal measure to nurture your potential as an engineer and will give you the chance to utilize and build your skills across all of the ILS disciplines, including Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability, Human Factors, Training, Lifecycle Engineering and Support Solution Design.

Opportunity

• Tailoring the scope and scale of ILS activities to meet the User, Customer, and Sonovision’s requirements.
• Working collaboratively with designers to improve the reliability, maintainability and usability aspects of the customer designs.
• Providing input to the development of the optimum support solution for each customer, within the context of a wider product and capability roadmap.
• Completing life cycle cost analyses, level of repair analyses, sparing analyses, failure modes and effects analyses.
• Eliciting and deriving support requirements and proposing verification methods for requirements.
• Developing supportability cases and conducting analyses to provide progressive assurance of support solutions.
• Performing reliability modelling and undertaking maintainability analysis to optimize support arrangements.
• Assessing the human element of systems, including assessing the potential for human error as a contributor to system failures.
• Preparing, or providing input to, technical manuals such as troubleshooting guides or operations and maintenance manuals.
• Assisting with the identification and mitigation of hazards through system hazard analysis.
• Formulating and implementing the obsolescence strategy for a product line.
• Supporting the continuous improvement of processes, policies and procedures.

To be considered for this opportunity

You will need to:

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a technical equivalent, or navy, army or air force equivalent in mechanical or electrical, or experience to match
• Have some knowledge and experience in Reliability & Maintainability – Reliability Prediction, RBDs, FTAs, FMECAs, MTAs, FRACAS/DRACAS, etc.
• Have the ability to review work produced by domain specialists across the others:
• Integrated Logistics Support – LCC, LORA, sparing, obsolescence, etc.
• Operational Analysis & Whole Life Cost Modelling – Business Case Analysis, Availability analysis, etc.
• Training Development, Design and Delivery.
• Hold or be capable of achieving Security Clearance (SC).
• Experience using PTC Windchill, Relyence, or some other modelling software is considered an asset.

Benefits

• 23 days holiday which increases with length of service
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance (Partners and Children included)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Wellbeing Support (Remote GPs, Physiotherapy, Life Coaching, Nutritionist Appointments, Personal Training, etc)
• Access to discounts at your favourite retailers
• Electric Car Scheme and more!