ILS Engineer

Protecting What Matters. Powering the Future of Naval Technology. Ultra Maritime is a global leader in advanced maritime defence solutions. We operate at the forefront of innovation, delivering technologies that protect lives, secure nations, and enable a safer, more sustainable world.

Ultra Maritime 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 team provides supportability and support solutions consultancy to Ultra's projects, sales and technology teams. We maximise our customers' capabilities by ensuring our products are supportable and supported at optimum Whole Life Cost.

This is an opportunity to grow your career within a progressive, dynamic environment with exposure to ground-breaking technologies and systems, including the world’s first Integrated Sonar System and the market‑leading fully digital Hull Mounted Sonar, S2150. You will work on our team to ensure that our products are designed to be supportable and are supported anywhere in the world. 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.

Working under the mentorship of the head of Support, you will apply sound engineering judgement to ensure products are developed to be supportable, develop the support solution and acquire the necessary resources for support. You will be conducting ILS work packages across a number of systems and taking ownership of ILS activities where required. The focus of this role is to ensure the supportability of Ultra Maritime products, by helping shape the design for support and helping develop the support solution architecture.

No two days at Ultra are the same, but your responsibilities will include:

• Tailoring the scope and scale of ILS activities to meet the User, Customer, and Ultra’s requirements.
• Working collaboratively with designers to improve the reliability, maintainability and usability aspects of Ultra's 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 optimise 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.

• 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) or higher with no caveats.
• Possess a full driving…