ILS Lead Engineer
// Role Summary
Lead Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities for the OMNIA ACTS programme, ensuring high-quality documentation, schedule adherence, and engineering standards across Live, Virtual, and Constructive environments.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of ILS activities within the OMNIA ACTS programme.
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on development/assurance of ILS artefacts.
- Coordinate and assure ILS activities delivered by subcontractors.
- Support the introduction of new capabilities and maintenance of legacy systems.
- Requires strong stakeholder and supplier management skills.
- Experience with military simulation or Army training environments is desirable.
// Role Specification
About the Role
The ILS Lead Engineer is responsible for the Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities on behalf of the Configuring Service within the OMNIA ACTS programme. This role involves leading the delivery of REUK’s ILS activities, supporting Army Collective Training Service (ACTS) capabilities across Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and deliver REUK’s allocated ILS workshare, ensuring ILS activities, documentation, and supportability outputs meet required quality, schedule, and engineering standards.
- Provide technical leadership to ILS Engineers, while also remaining hands-on in the development, review, and assurance of ILS artefacts.
- Collaborate with OMNIA consortium partners, OEMs, Engineering teams, Delivery Teams, and Army stakeholders to ensure effective integration of REUK’s ILS activities with the wider ACTS support solution.
- Coordinate and assure ILS activities delivered by REUK’s subcontractors, ensuring ILS requirements are understood, deliverables are reviewed, and subcontractor outputs are integrated into REUK’s ILS workshare.
- Support the introduction of new capabilities and maintain effective support arrangements for legacy systems, using evidence-based approaches to enhance availability, maintainability, and through-life support.
Required Skills and Experience
- Demonstrable experience leading ILS activities in complex engineering programmes, with the ability to produce, review, and assure ILS deliverables.
- Strong understanding of ILS principles, including support concepts, maintenance planning, provisioning, technical documentation, obsolescence management, and supportability analysis.
- Experience providing technical guidance, mentoring engineers, reviewing engineering outputs, and resolving complex technical issues.
- Experience developing and assuring ILS artefacts throughout acquisition, integration, service introduction, and in-service support phases.
- Proven experience working with customers, suppliers, OEMs, and multidisciplinary teams to coordinate supportability activities.
- Experience coordinating ILS activities across suppliers and subcontractors, including requirement flow-down and deliverable review.
- Experience using operational data, maintenance information, or reliability trends to inform decisions on availability, maintainability, and lifecycle support.
- Experience supporting the transition of new capabilities into service while maintaining support for existing systems.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience supporting military simulation within Live, Virtual, and/or Constructive (LVC) training systems.
- Knowledge of Army training and support environments.
- Experience with C2 systems (e.g., Bowman, Sitaware, TAK).
- Experience with RAM analysis, LSA, or LORA.
- Knowledge of configuration management and technical publications.
- Experience managing obsolescence in complex electronic systems.
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted or hybrid training systems.
- Working knowledge of IP networking and communications technologies.
- Experience with Tactical Engagement Simulation (TES) instrumentation, targetry, or associated data paths.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
Personal Attributes
We are seeking mission-focused individuals with the enthusiasm and drive to achieve results. You should be collaborative, willing to learn and share lessons, and prioritize the mission over bureaucracy. While a military background is not essential, an understanding of service and a mission-first approach is.