Senior Supportability Engineer
Location
Glasgow | United Kingdom
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Senior Supportability Engineer
Apply remote type Hybrid locations Glasgow time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R0234220 Location: Glasgow, United KingdomIn fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Purpose of the Role:
- Deliver on supportability Commitments for a suite of Products across various programmes:
- Working with the Programme Managers to optimise the work required to meet the needs of the Customer and the available budget.
- To carry out that work to the agreed budget, schedule and technical requirements.
- Teaming with ILS SME’s to achieve contract milestones
- Work with Design Engineers and Programme Management Team to leverage opportunities, manage risks and optimise financial performance and Through-Life cost of ownership.
Core Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Work as an experienced supportability / engineering team member to take responsibility for own / team work packages.
- Undertake own supportability engineering activities and provide day to day supportability engineering guidance to own team.
- Make supportability / engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
- Support own team in matters of technical understanding and support in areas of own expertise.
- Provide help and direction to less experienced team members. Manage own elements of logistics engineering work package and support others.
- Contribute to relevant Thales Engineering Communities of Interest.
- Take responsibility for contributing to team planning, risk management, quality and HSE.
- Set targets for and manage own development with line manager. Seek & share good practice & knowledge to continuously improve own and team practices.
- Contribute to the development & continuation of successful local supply chain relationships.
Qualifications and Certification:
- Degree level education – in relevant engineering, science or technology Degree or equivalent experience is desirable Or HND qualified with significant engineering experience.
- Typically experienced in at least one engineering domain, with knowledge of associated and contributory domains.
- Good working experiences in preferably more than two phases of the lifecycle with sufficient experience of the total engineering lifecycle to enable a good understanding of adjacent lifecycle phases and through life engineering issues.
- Logistic Support Analysis (MIL-STD-1388 2B, Raytheon Eagle LSAR)
- Reliability, Maintainability and Testability Studies (MIL-STD-217F, ANSI VITA, FIDES)
- FMECAs (MIL-STD-1629A)
- Through-Life Cost and spares modelling (Systecon OPUS10, SIMLOX,CATLOX)
- Initial Provisioning
- DRACAS (JIRA, Favoweb)
- Experience of technical and commercial contact with customers, partners and suppliers
Personality/Behaviours:
This senior position requires an individual that is:
- Passionate about service excellence through innovation.
- Strong desire to influence designs for Supportability
- Demonstrates behaviour that is consistent with the Thales Behaviours and Management Charter.
- Maintains an ethical approach to business, in line with the Thales ethics policy.
- Demonstrates behaviours appropriate to the position and LR Grade
- Excellent communicator
- Self-motivated and proactive
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At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
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