ILS Lead Engineer

ILS Lead – Senior Engineer

Location: Arboga, Sweden

We are looking for an experienced ILS Lead Engineer (Integrated Logistics Support) to support the development, delivery and lifecycle management of complex technical systems.

This is a senior role for someone who understands how to ensure that systems remain reliable, available, maintainable and cost-effective throughout their operational lifecycle.

The Role

As an ILS Manager, you will play a central role in ensuring effective maintenance, support, reliability and availability from the early development stages through to operation and long-term support.

You will work independently while also collaborating closely with project teams, system engineers, technical specialists and other stakeholders. You will help ensure that maintenance and logistical requirements are considered early in the system design and remain aligned throughout the lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and analyse ILS strategies, plans and support concepts.
• Ensure logistics, maintenance and support requirements are properly incorporated into system design.
• Contribute to system safety, reliability, maintainability and testability.
• Support procurement activities, technical documentation and technical support.
• Develop maintenance plans, maintenance procedures and spare-parts requirements.
• Identify and help resolve lifecycle support and maintenance challenges.
• Lead the development and delivery of customer-specific maintenance and support solutions.
• Coordinate ILS activities with engineering, project management and other technical functions.
• Support the continuous improvement of lifecycle management and support processes.
• Ensure that ILS activities contribute to high system availability and optimised operating costs.

Requirements

Level 3:

3–7 years of relevant full-time experience, with strong and well-developed technical competence in ILS, lifecycle management or a closely related field.

Level 4:

8–12 years of relevant full-time experience, with deep technical expertise or broad generalist competence and the ability to take significant responsibility within complex projects.

Desirable Experience

Experience in the following areas would be highly advantageous:

• Project management
• Defence industry
• Aerospace or other complex technical systems
• S-Series / S-Series logistics and support
• Lifecycle management
• Maintenance engineering
• Reliability and availability engineering
• Technical support and sustainment
• Working with multidisciplinary engineering teams

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is an experienced ILS professional who is comfortable taking ownership of complex activities and working independently.

You should have strong analytical and organisational skills, be able to communicate effectively with different stakeholders, and be confident working across engineering, project and operational functions.

You should also be comfortable developing practical solutions to maintenance and support challenges and ensuring that these solutions remain effective throughout the complete system lifecycle.

Please send across a CV if you wishto apply.