Job Title: Reliability & Maintainability Engineer
Salary: up to £45,500 per annum dependent upon experience
Location: Preston
We currently have a vacancy to join one of the world’s leading, global defence, security and aerospace companies as a Reliability & Maintainability Engineer. The role will be based just outside of Preston but offers the opportunity for hybrid working and flexible working hours. Individual circumstances can be discussed.
They work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a major international combat air development programme during the design early lifecycle – influencing the “design for support” considerations of the core platform concept from a reliability point of view as well as eliciting and developing reliability requirements for the product. The role will evolve into the application of reliability analysis activities throughout detailed design and development of the product, and ultimately into operational and in-service phases of the programme.
Main Responsibilities:
Undertaking reliability and maintainability analysis and engineering tasks to influence the design and future sustainment of platforms and systems so that they are inherently supportable in their intended use within the constraints of the operation and environment
Maintaining an awareness of latest changes and developments in standards, international specifications, toolsets and recognised methods
Contributing to broader technical reviews, integration activities, and planning events
Providing technical R, M & T engineering guidance and advice internally and to external teams
Contributing to ensuring the alignment between reliability and maintainability engineering, safety engineering and human factors engineering in any reliability analysis activities undertaken
Benefits:
Enhanced Pension scheme- up to 14% combined
Flexible working pattern including working from home/ flexible start and finish times
25 holiday days plus bank holidays- 26 days after 5 years’ service/ 27 days after 10 years’ service
Shared Incentive Plan
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Life Assurance (you and your spouse/ partner)- 6 x salary
Ill Health Income Protection/ Private Medical Insurance- 50% of salary
About You:
Essential:
Knowledge of the principles of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Testability
Experience of applying at least several of the following R, M & T engineering tools / techniques / approaches on complex programmes: Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), R, M & T Allocation, Prediction & Modelling of complex systems & Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
Good IT Skills, including MS Office but also experience working with digital engineering tools
Desirable:
Ex maintenance background
Knowledge and experience in applying international and/or military standards and specifications relevant to Reliability engineering (e.g. ASD/AIA S-Series Specifications, MSG-3, Def-Stan 00-40 series, Def-Stan 00-045)
You must be eligible to apply for SC clearance and, therefore, must hold a British passport and have lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years
About Aeropeople:
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