This job will Perform Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) analysis tasks to develop in coordination with the system engineering effort and each other, trade-offs which may be required between elements in order to acquire a product / system that is; affordable (lowest life-cycle cost), operable, supportable, sustainable, transportable, safe to operate, reliable and environmentally sound which meet and exceed the market / end user requirements.

Your role

• Inputs into budgets, quotes & tenders, in support of the ILS manager 

• Responsible for effective and efficient timesheet management (recovery of hours). 

• Participate (with strong influence) in the establishment of the Logistic Engineering process and tasks for target / customer and development product baselines 

• Influence the design in terms of reliability, maintainability, testability and safety 

• Perform a Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) in order to capture all maintenance data in order to support a product / system (maintenance tasks, resources, tooling, personnel, support & test equipment, etc.) 

• Define the most suitable and cost-effective Maintenance Concept per program 

• Consolidate all maintenance data in a Maintenance Plan 

• Define the required Support and Test Equipment to effectively support and test the main equipment per product / program 

• Calculate and define the optimum recommended spare parts for a product / system as per a define operational profile and relevant maintenance level 

• Define the required Packaging, Handling, Storage & Transportation requirements per program 

• Identify and define facility requirements for maintenance and training 

• Participate in failure analysis and relevant corrective actions

• Perform reliability analysis for products and systems 

• Analyse products / systems by identifying all possible failure modes, the effects of the failures, the causes thereof and possible mitigation actions. 

• Expand the Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) to make provision for additional test data to subsequently convert the FMECA to a Failure Catalogue 

• Provide support to the System Engineering environment to perform a Testability Analysis 

• Support Safety Engineer during safety analysis regarding failures, effects / consequences of failures and the probability of failures occurring 

• Support Safety Engineer in the construction of the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) 

• Authoring of Service Letters, Technical and Service Bulletins per program 

• Authoring of Technical Publications per program on an ad hoc basis when the Technical Author is not available or overloaded 

• Provide the required support to Product Areas and other groups who interface directly with clients 

• Assistance in identifying and evaluating vendors as part of the development and industrialisation process

Your profile

Required knowledge:

• Knowledge regarding EW and Avionics products and their operational environments

Practical Experience

• Logistics & System Safety Engineering, Technical Authoring and training experience 

• Experienced with MIL-HDBK-217F Notice 2, MIL-STD-1629A, etc. 

• Systems Engineering knowledge / experience will be an advantage 

• Project and Product management experience.

Person Specification:

• Critical thinking and problem solving.

• Teamwork and collaboration.

• Professionalism and strong work ethic.

• Oral and written communications skills.

• Leadership.

• Thorough and quality orientated.

• Well-structured / organised work methods.

Competencies:

• Specific software tools training (e.g. Windchill Quality Solutions / Risk & Reliability (Relex).

• Microsoft (MS) Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.

•  IFS

• Eagle LSA Toolset, etc.).

Qualification:

• Technical qualification (Minimum requirement: National Technical Diploma – Electronics).

• Management or leadership training. 

• Software tools training.

What you will be a part of

SGD has reinforced its position as a leading South African defence and security company, bringing capabilities including electronic warfare systems, sensor technology, training systems, avionics, security and support solutions to the African and international markets. These capabilities are supplied and supported over the air, land, sea and civil security domains.

With new and improved technological systems and solutions, SGD increases a country’s defence capabilities and provides innovative, effective products and services for those tasked to maintain security. The company also works with various stakeholders in gathering data and providing insight into how security threats evolve, and what the best market-customised solutions are.

If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal – to help protect people.

SGD will give preference to South African citizens and we also welcome applications from individuals with culturally diverse backgrounds

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received feedback from us within 30 days after the closing date.