Senior In-Service Support Engineer

Loudwater, England, United Kingdom

12/11/2024

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

Our In-Service Support team is responsible for providing back-office engineering support to our field service teams and end users to enable them to achieve mission success, 24/7/365, anywhere in the world. You will be joining a team of highly trained engineers whose decades of experience spans the breadth of the Defence sector and all phases of the life cycle. The team supports a customer base that is distributed across the globe, from the UK to the USA, Australia, Canada, India, Denmark, Norway, and many other countries.

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 and torpedo defence systems. Managing the support elements of the programme, you will work on our team to ensure that our products are supportable and supported, anywhere in the world.

We will challenge and support you in equal measure to nurture your potential as a manager and engineer and will support you in working towards the requirements of Chartership with your chosen institution. We will give you the chance to utilise and build your skills across defence support, customer relations, contract management, technical investigations, diagnostics, repair, tests, and trials on live platforms as well as project team leadership, obsolescence, and design management.

Working as the lead of a customer facing team that supports our sonar systems and other defence equipment In-Service, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the delivery of our In-Service support obligations, working closely with the Project Manager, Project Engineering Lead, System Design Authority and our customers and users
• Ensuring support project approaches remain relevant and in line with Defence Standards and other policies as identified in customer contracts
• Providing a proactive response to emerging technical issues, including customer fault reports and technical queries
• Working closely with the rest of the engineering team to develop solutions that are technically and commercially acceptable
• Managing and monitoring system performance, conducting root cause analysis of faults and seeking opportunities to improve the in-service delivery performance of our products
• Defining and leading the implementation of programmes of inspection and preventative maintenance
• Ensuring that customer equipment remains safe and suitable for continued service
• Coordinating and cooperating with the field support team to conduct equipment defect investigations, surveys, integration, and acceptance testing
• Managing Integrated Logistics Support documentation and Implementing change requests as required
• Highlighting resource conflicts or constraints to engineering management
• Producing estimates for new engineering work (e.g., redesign, obsolescence) and planning the work
• Instilling Engineering best practices and processes to enhance engineering excellence and promote continuous improvement.
• Implementing the obsolescence strategies for a product line.
  
  

Skills, Qualification And Experience

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

• A Bachelor's degree or higher diploma in a Management, Asset Management, Logistics, Science, Technology, Engineering, or related disciplines. A suitable level of experience in engineering would be considered if no formal qualifications are available.
• Significant experience in Defence engineering and/or Logistics and/or as a senior engineer throughout the Integration, Test, and In-Service phase of the lifecycle.
• Provided leadership and worked in the management of the latter aspects of the CADMID/T cycle.
• Demonstrated the ability to plan and execute support tasks on engineering projects.
• Shown an awareness of engineering project management principles (e.g., work package, dependency, and risk management).
• Multiple examples of times when you have worked under tight time constraints, in challenging contexts.
• A background working with maritime equipment would be a bonus.
  
  

Personal Attributes

A detail-oriented problem solver, with a passion for supporting the customer, you will:

• Display excellent interpersonal skills with a talent for rapidly building rapport with a broad range of internal and external customers from diverse backgrounds.
• Possess excellent organisational and management skills.
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of your work, management, and technical decisions, as well as that of other staff working for you on a project/work package.
• Have the willingness to mentor, motivate and encourage junior members of the team, to allow their own competency level to improve.
• Demonstrate excellent people and stakeholder management skills, report writing and attention to detail
• Cooperate well with others to achieve outstanding outcomes
• Hold or be capable of achieving Security Clearance (SC) or higher with no caveats.
• Possess a full driving licence. This role is office based with occasional travel across Ultra sites and to customer and supplier locations.
  
  

Benefits on offer:

• Optional 9 day fortnight
• TOIL
• Flexible working hours
• 1pm finish on a Friday
• Annual bonus
• Hybrid working for certain job roles.
• Casual dress
• 25 days holiday
• Christmas shut down.
• Option to buy or sell holiday.
• Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
• Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
• 4 x annual salary life cover
• 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).
  
  

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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.

Company: Ultra Maritime