Senior Supportability Engineer

Job Description

At Leonardo, we have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Supportability Engineer.

The team you will be joining form part of a multi discipline engineering team responsible for both production of existing radar systems and the design and development of our next generation of radar products. You will have the opportunity to ensure the supportability characteristics of our products are understood and aligned to the Customers’ operational and support needs.

We will give you the environment to develop your existing technical skills across the various radar product design phases, helping us to deliver world leading, highly reliable and capable integrated sensor systems for our worldwide customer base. We are a diverse mix of Engineers and Technical Specialists who bring together a wealth of experience and expertise to collaborate, innovate and deliver world-class solutions.

The Supportability function has a unique position within our business as it is involved in all the stages of a programme, from Bid, to Development, to Production then Customer Support and eventually disposal. We draw engineers from many different disciplines in addition to Supportability, such as Electronic, Mechanical and Systems Engineering to enhance the Supportability Team.

You will be actively involved in analysing, assessing and influencing the supportability characteristics and performance of the next generation of Leonardo products.

You will be responsible for;

• Engaging with the Integrated Project Teams to deliver Supportability Engineering (SE) work packages covering Reliability, Maintainability and Testability (RM&T) analysis, Support Strategy planning and modelling.
• Using a variety of analytical techniques and procedures to perform RM&T analysis on integrated systems.
• Working closely with systems, mechanical, software, RF, electronics and safety engineers to identify and avoid real support related problems on complex systems, before they reach the Customer.
• Use your engineering talent to grow and develop the supportability community and core skills base.
• Contribute to continuous process/procedural improvements to help drive out the cost and reputational consequence of failure.
• Understanding the Customers’ operational needs to help guide the development of equipment capable of meeting the needs of future operational environments.
• Contributing to IPT and Engineering Unit decision making.
• Supervision of Engineers.
• Provide guidance on through life cost of ownership.
• Mentor, coach and develop more junior members of the team.
• Providing domain experience in support of customer and user engagement and product roadmaps.

Ideally, you will have a degree in a relevant engineering or science disciple and have either worked in industry, defence or have other relevant experience.

We are particularly interested in speaking to you if you have experience in the following areas:

• Working knowledge of RMT analysis techniques on electronic, power, RF, mechanical and mixed technology systems.
• Equipment Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) data collection and analysis
• Safety Hazard Identification and Safety Management inc Fault Tree Analysis
• Support Strategy Planning, LORA utilising support modelling tools (eg OPUS)
• Bids and Proposals support in provision of information and analysis in a ‘Merchant Supply’ environment
• Familiar with statistical data analysis.
• Creation of beneficial relationships with cross functional colleagues, customers and suppliers

Our team use: PTC Windchill Risk and Reliability;
Reliasoft; OPUS;
Simlox;
Matlab / Simulink;
Jira and Python and although expertise is not essential, familiarity with some would be beneficial.

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us
• Company funded flexible…