Supportability Specialist

Copello have partnered with an established engineer in the recruitment of an ILS & Sustainment Engineer to provide technical assurance across asset management, lifecycle support and sustainment strategies within a complex engineering environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide independent technical assurance across ILS, asset management and sustainment strategies.
• Assess reliability, availability, maintainability, spares, repair and support assumptions.
• Identify obsolescence, supplier and through-life support risks and recommend mitigations.
• Produce technical analysis, confidence assessments and decision-ready reporting.
• Support lifecycle reviews, asset refresh programmes and governance activities.
• Work collaboratively with engineering, projects, supply chain, logistics and service teams.
• Apply data analytics and digital tools to improve sustainment insight and reporting.

About you:

• Degree or relevant professional qualification in Engineering, Science or a related discipline.
• Experience in ILS, asset management, sustainment or supportability engineering
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• Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle and service management principles.
• Experience analysing reliability, availability and maintainability data.
• Strong Excel skills and experience with reporting/data analysis tools such as Power BI.
• Experience working within a project-focused engineering environment.
• Understanding of obsolescence, supplier risk and whole-life costing.
• Experience with in defence, aerospace, aviation or another highly regulated engineering environment would be advantageous.

Security clearance is required for this position
, with occasional travel to other operational sites and potentially overseas.