Principal Engineer - Support Engineering (Maintenance Design)

Principal Engineer – Support Engineering (Maintenance Design)

Rate: £70.90ph Umbrella

Determination: Inside of IR35

Work Set Up: Remote (occasional site visits as required to Barrow)   

Contract length: 12 months   

• The individual will be the primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the delivery and assurance of Maintenance Derivation and Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) outputs.
• The individual will have a clear and demonstrable understanding of the relevant Ministry of Defence (MoD), industry and corporate standards that cover Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities, which they will apply.
• The individual should have a comprehensive understanding of the definition, application and control of ILS management activities and they will be confident interfacing with internal stakeholders, suppliers and customers.
• The individual will provide guidance to the Support and Product Engineering Managers as required to ensure the effective delivery of ILS outputs of the support solution to the Customer.

Core Duties
• Using BAES processes, analyse software products (COTS, Bespoke, Modified COTS) and recommend software support strategies
• Contribute towards system level software support case reports
• Review software source documentation, interpret technical information and provide written recommendations on how best to support the software product through life
• Support stakeholder engagement and attend collaboration working groups in support of BAES scope of work for maintenance derivation (software)
• Provide software SME advice to the wider ILS community, and support mapping activity between the BAE software analysis outputs and other key ILS stakeholders

• Engineer with an ILS software support / engineering background
• Understanding of JSP 935, DefStan 00-055, IEC 61508, DLF SSE GP.2.11 desirable
• Degree or equivalent experience in the appropriate discipline
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good IT skills
• Knowledge of Teamcenter desirable
• The ability to analyse complex problems specifically related to software support, and identify the most critical support related issues

Key Deliverables
• Software analysis at a system level
• Software analysis at the equipment level
• Software support strategies per system
• Software case reports
• Provide input into Customer and Industry Partner Working Groups, from a software support perspective
• Provide software support SME advice to other ILS stakeholders / teams
• Production of management and process documentation relevant to software

Knowledge

• Desirable - knowledge of the complete engineering lifecycle and how support activities align to it, with some experience of operating in a number of lifecycle phases.
• The ability to analyse complex problems.
• Understanding of JSP 935, DefStan 00-055, IEC 61508, DLF SSE GP.2.11 desirable