ILS Manager

As an ILS Manager, you'll be at the heart of delivering support solutions for the Arrowhead programme, ensuring our cutting-edge warships remain mission ready. This is a customer facing role where you'll collaborate with highly skilled Engineers, Managers and Technicians to shape the future of naval support. Your work will make a tangible difference to national security and give you the opportunity to grow your career in defence, aerospace, and engineering. Day-to-day, you'll be the key liaison between the Authority and the T26 Warship Technical Authority (WTA). Supporting the Lead and Principal Engineers to ensure compliance requirements, while delivering objectives to ensure readiness to deliver support to each in-service vessel.

• Supporting planning and execution of IKM aspects of project workstreams.
• Acting as the T26 Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) Subject Matter Expert, providing advice and guidance.
• Ensuring compliance with security, ITAR/EC and intellectual property requirements.
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Participating in assurance activities to validate the supportability case.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the ILS Manager
• Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Expertise in Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) and Integrated Logistics Support (ILS).
• Engineering background (mechanical or electrical); Royal Navy experience highly desirable.
• Strong communication skills with customer-facing experience.
• Ability to operate in compliance-driven environments.
Qualifications for the ILS Manager
• Honours degree (or higher) in Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
• Chartered Engineer status and membership of a relevant professional institute or significant demonstrable supportability engineering experience.
Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an ILS Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard, Babcock Technology Centre or Leicester site.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). What we offer
• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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