Senior ILS Engineer

Unleash the Power of Multi-Mission Excellence: Safeguarding the Seas for the World's Navies.

Step into a world where cutting-edge technology meets unparalleled expertise. Ultra Maritime pioneers delivering multi-mission solutions that protect and empower the naval forces worldwide. With our extensive portfolio of capabilities, our innovations are utilised on naval fleets across our allied navies around the globe.

As the maritime and underwater battlespace evolves, we tirelessly push the boundaries to develop advanced specialist systems that provide our 'five-eyes' Defence customers with an unbeatable warfighting edge. From surface vessels to sub-surface operations and unmanned platforms, we are revolutionizing the way naval missions are executed.

We thrive on collaboration and partnering with our customers to ensure mission success. Our expert solutions encompass an array of game-changing technologies, including state-of-the-art sonar, radar, expendables, signature management, and naval power systems.

Join us in shaping the future of naval warfare and together, we will safeguard the seas and empower navies worldwide!

Flexible Working

At Ultra Maritime, we understand that your personal life is just as important as your professional one. That's why we support and promote flexible working arrangements where possible. Whether you prefer a hybrid model, working remotely, or the structure of being on-site, we will support you as best as we can.

Embrace the freedom to shape your work hours according to your needs, whether it's part-time, compressed hours, or a unique arrangement that suits your lifestyle.

Loudwater, Greenford, and Weymouth exclusively offer a 9-day fortnight working pattern, offering extended weekends every other week, granting you more time to pursue your passions. And that's not all – we provide flexible start and finish times, as well as Time off in Lieu (TOIL) for up to 1 day per calendar month which tie in with our Values of Integrity, Transparency and Alignment. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

Job Description

Ultra Maritime - Sonar has an exciting opportunity for a Senior 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.

Key Responsibilities

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 acting as the ILS Project Lead with work on 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:

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

Skills, Qualification and Experience

A dynamic, professional, engineer or technician with experience within a high technology or regulated industry, you will:

1. 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.
2. Have knowledge and experience in Reliability & Maintainability – Reliability Prediction, RBDs, FTAs, FMECAs, MTAs, FRACAS/DRACAS, etc.
3. Have the ability to review work produced by domain specialists across the others:
4. Operational Analysis & Whole Life Cost Modelling – Business Case Analysis, COIEAs, Availability Trade-Off Analysis, etc.
5. Training Development, Design and Delivery.
6. Hold or be capable of achieving Security Clearance (SC) or higher with no caveats.
7. Possess a full driving license. This role is office based with occasional travel across Ultra sites and to customer and supplier locations.
8. Experience using PTC Windchill, Isograph, or some other modelling software is considered an asset.

Personal Attributes

In order to achieve your personal and professional goals, you will:

1. Display excellent interpersonal skills with a talent for rapidly building rapport with a broad range of internal and external customers from diverse backgrounds.
2. Work to resolve conflict wherever it arises, promoting harmony within the team.
3. Possess excellent communication skills and display the empathy and skill to adapt your communication style in response to others' needs.
4. Be capable of providing mentorship and guidance to less experienced co-workers.

Benefits on offer:

1. Optional 9 day fortnight
2. TOIL
3. 1pm finish on a Friday
4. Annual bonus
5. Hybrid working for certain job roles.
6. 25 days holiday
7. Christmas shut down.
8. Option to buy or sell holiday.
9. Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
10. Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
11. 4 x annual salary life cover
12. Pension starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee. You can select your employee contribution level from 4% to 70% (providing this sacrifice does not cause your salary to drop below the National Minimum Wage/ National Living Wage).

Relocation Support

Attracting high-level talent and people that can add value and expertise, is vital to our success. Attracting and retaining brilliant people is imperative so that’s why we search across the UK for talent. We offer financial support to candidates that are considering relocating; this is considered on a case-by-case basis per role and subject to HMRC guidelines.

Nationality Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain the relevant security clearance required for the role, due to the nature of the programmes we deliver for our customers.

Diverse & Inclusive Employer

Ultra Maritime is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be your best and authentic self.

We promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures; believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and welcome applications from all candidates.

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