ILS Engineer

Thales
Belfast
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: OtherSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder engagement","Organisational skills","Risk management","Proactive collaboration"]

Join Thales’ Integrated Airspace-protection Systems team in Belfast to ensure supportability is designed into products from the start. You’ll perform supportability analysis and reliability/maintainability tasks, produce ILS plans and whole-life cost data, manage DRACAS and defect review boards, and support bids and in-service improvement using system engineering processes. Work with stakeholders on LORA, maintenance task analysis, and risk management across the lifecycle while adhering to relevant defence standards.

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Thales
Thales
3 days ago

ILS Engineer

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Job Summary

Join Thales’ Integrated Airspace-protection Systems team in Belfast to ensure supportability is designed into products from the start. You’ll perform supportability analysis and reliability/maintainability tasks, produce ILS plans and whole-life cost data, manage DRACAS and defect review boards, and support bids and in-service improvement using system engineering processes. Work with stakeholders on LORA, maintenance task analysis, and risk management across the lifecycle while adhering to relevant defence standards.
Location: Belfast
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time

Key Responsibilities

  • •Carry out detailed Supportability Analysis (SA) and reliability and maintainability (R&M) tasks.
  • •Ensure current capability meets program supportability needs and is addressed through the systems engineering process.
  • •Develop and maintain ILS-related plans aligned to programme and customer requirements, including bid inputs and technical queries.
  • •Analyse in-service data to recommend improvements to R&M and operational performance; manage ILS risks, issues, and opportunities.
  • •Produce Whole Life Costs (WLC) data, conduct LORA and maintenance task analysis, and manage DRACAS reporting via regular defect review boards.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Matched PensionLife AssurancePaid VolunteeringGym Membership

Key Requirements

  • •Degree qualifications in Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related discipline, or HND Engineering with significant experience.
  • •Experience as a Supportability or Reliability Engineer with knowledge of reliability and maintainability principles.
  • •Experience preparing formal ILS documentation and supportability deliverables.
  • •Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with strong organisational ability to manage competing priorities.
  • •Cleared with or eligible for UK SC clearance; proficient in IT and fluent in English.
Experience:DefenceAerospaceMaritimeMilitaryMoD
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder engagementOrganisational skillsRisk managementProactive collaboration
Licenses:Full UK driver’s licence
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ITReliability WorkbenchMS OfficeReliability and Maintainability (R&M)Supportability Analysis (SA)DRACASDefect Review Boards (DRBs)Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA)Whole Life Costs (WLC)

Eligibility

Security Clearance:UK SC

Company Brief

Thales
Designs and delivers advanced systems and services for aerospace, defence, security, and digital identity and cybersecurity markets, serving government and commercial customers worldwide.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2000
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