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Supportability Reliability And Maintainability Engineering Cons

Supportability Reliability And Maintainability Engineering Consultant (Bristol or Dorking)UK
Our client are a major engineering consultancy who are recognised as one of the UK's biggest providers of systems and engineering technology, with over 300 permanent employees at seven UK sites - Dorking, Bristol, Burton-on-Trent, Glasgow, Plymouth, Warrington and Dorchester.
They provide consultancy services to customers in the defence, nuclear, power & energy, civil aerospace, rail, marine, petrochemical and industrial sectors and are currently looking for a Supportability/ Reliability Engineer in either their Bristol or Dorking office.
You will be developing customer relationships and executing work programmes within our Supportability and Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) consultancy business.
This position requires experience in developing through life Supportability and R&M strategies on defence acquisition programmes and the ability to apply and deliver Supportability and R&M principles and processes to complex engineering systems.
Requirements
" You will have recent experience working within the defence sector on Supportability (including Integrated Logistic Support), Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and R&M engineering programmes.
" Preferably you will have held a recent position within a consultancy business environment working as a Supportability, TNA and R&M engineer/consultant or held an Integrated Logistic Support/R&M post in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) or a defence contractor.
" You will have knowledge of the applicable MoD standards for Supportability, TNA and R&M along with an understanding of the role of Supportability, Training and R&M in the context of the MoD's Acquisition Operating Framework.
" Ideally you will have experience of working on ISTAR or naval based systems.

Essential Skills
" Ability to develop Supportability, TNA and R&M strategies for complex equipment from both a technical and commercial perspective.
" Recent experience of managing and delivering Supportability, TNA and R&M activities during the concept, assessment, demonstration and manufacturing phases of MoD programmes.
" A good understanding and track record of undertaking formal Supportability, TNA and R&M analyses as applied to complex defence acquisition programmes (including Logistic Support Analysis tasks, failure analysis, whole life cost modelling, R&M case development, R&M modelling).
" An understanding of the MoD's support solution envelope.
" Ideally a degree level education in engineering or equivalent or alternatively significant formal training in Supportability and R&M techniques.
" Experience of direct liaison with customers (both MoD and defence contractors).

" Candidates must be able to demonstrate excellent communication, written and presentation skills.

If you feel you have the relevant skills and experience for this role please apply now or send your CV to jenna.beard@serl.co.uk
- Jenna Beard Defence Recruitment Consultant
Please note all candidates will need to be able to obtain Security Clearance to be considered for this vacancy. Therefore you will need to have been a permanent UK resident for the last 5 years and hold a British passport to be eligible for this role.

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