DE&S Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Manager - #1796785

MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol, Avon BS34 8JH

Job Summary

At Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), we supply and maintain vital equipment and services for the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. Together, we deliver a vast range of essential defence programmes, and strive for what's next. Because it helps keep our military at the top of their game and our nation safe – for today, and tomorrow.

We offer 25+ days’ holiday, flexible and hybrid working, enhanced parental leave schemes, shopping discounts, and an exceptional employer pension contribution of 28.97%, to help make work work for you.

For security reasons some of these posts may be open to sole UK nationals only. A ‘sole UK national’ refers to an individual who holds citizenship solely in the UK, without dual citizenship or nationality from another country. We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship.

This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance. Clearance must be obtained without any caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role you’ve been recruited for. If it isn’t obtained, or is obtained but with caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role, any conditional offer made to you will be withdrawn. Obtaining SC security clearance can be a lengthy process, and we reserve the right to withdraw any conditional offer made if the necessary security clearance isn’t obtained within 12 months.

Job Description

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in delivering and managing Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities? We are seeking several dedicated individuals to lead specialist technical acquisition and upgrade projects, ensuring the design of supportable and sustainable equipment and products.

This is your chance to contribute to the development of maintainable, cost-effective, and operationally available capabilities that meet customer requirements. You will be responsible for planning and leading ILS programmes and packages of work. This will involve determining, developing, testing, evaluating, and accepting equipment and product support designs to deliver assured support solutions. You will play a critical role in optimising in-service supply support and maintenance arrangements. While the primary focus of this role is on capability acquisition and the transition into service, you will also have the opportunity to work across all phases of the project lifecycle, ensuring a varied workload.

This role is business-facing, either within a specific delivery team or in a service support assurance or consultancy capacity. It is a key role in leading and delivering ILS acquisition and upgrade programmes, driving capability support design, support solution development, and implementation. Your work will enable capabilities to enter service, meeting customer targets and User & System requirements.

You will play a vital role in influencing business investment decisions by highlighting the whole-life support cost impact. You will also provide expert advice and guidance to in-service teams, customers, suppliers, and functional colleagues, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned in delivering sustainable and supportable solutions. In addition to these responsibilities, you will ensure compliance with relevant legislation, statutory regulations, ILS policies, and standards. You will also adhere to DE&S Business Management System processes, ensuring that all activities are conducted to the highest standards of quality and governance.

Please note some of these posts may be reserved for Sole UK Nationals.

We champion flexible ways of working. Regular in-person attendance is required (this is expected to be approximately 60% of your working week) to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance and business need. Initially, you may be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with the site, the team, and your role.

What You’ll Be Doing

Depending on the role, you will have responsibilities for delivering a range of Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) Services, covering the following:

• Design of ILS programmes, covering ILS task Work Break Downs (WBD)s and strategies to capture; whole life support cost, reliability, maintainability and availability estimates, to be able to influence support requirements, concepts and doctrine.
• Mapping User Requirements into the supportability system requirements and contractual supply end –to-end support requirements. This includes producing technical evaluation assessment criteria for tendering, awarding, monitoring & assessing contractual performance, and for their achievement to the specified ILS design and support milestone criteria.
• Producing ILS Plans and Use Cases. This includes monitoring support development progress and agreeing the results of associated ILS trials, tests, evaluations and demonstrations against the related project milestone/target.
• Producing supportability cases and bodies of evidence for identifying, managing and mitigating supportability risks, to influence optimal approaches by conducting Supportability Analysis (SA) and to negotiate and recommend trade-offs, alternative support solutions and options for consideration.
• Verifying and validating ILS deliverables to pre-position optimal levels of supply support investments, management regimes and resources, for setting equipment support policy directives on the in-service maintenance and supply chain arrangements.
• Establishing, maintaining and communicating the through life logistic support technical data information repositories, including content, structure, data module formats, and considering the information/asset access rights and intellectual property design/repair restrictions.
• Leading a team, including advice and guidance on support matters to everyone within their business areas.
• Monitoring and implementing governance and assurance policies and procedures, to their assigned business areas, ensuring capability support solutions are cost affordable, supportable and within business and Defence assurance envelopes.
  
  

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in delivering and managing Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities? We are seeking several dedicated individuals to lead specialist technical acquisition and upgrade projects, ensuring the design of supportable and sustainable equipment and products.

This is your chance to contribute to the development of maintainable, cost-effective, and operationally available capabilities that meet customer requirements. You will be responsible for planning and leading ILS programmes and packages of work. This will involve determining, developing, testing, evaluating, and accepting equipment and product support designs to deliver assured support solutions. You will play a critical role in optimising in-service supply support and maintenance arrangements. While the primary focus of this role is on capability acquisition and the transition into service, you will also have the opportunity to work across all phases of the project lifecycle, ensuring a varied workload.

This role is business-facing, either within a specific delivery team or in a service support assurance or consultancy capacity. It is a key role in leading and delivering ILS acquisition and upgrade programmes, driving capability support design, support solution development, and implementation. Your work will enable capabilities to enter service, meeting customer targets and User & System requirements.

You will play a vital role in influencing business investment decisions by highlighting the whole-life support cost impact. You will also provide expert advice and guidance to in-service teams, customers, suppliers, and functional colleagues, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned in delivering sustainable and supportable solutions. In addition to these responsibilities, you will ensure compliance with relevant legislation, statutory regulations, ILS policies, and standards. You will also adhere to DE&S Business Management System processes, ensuring that all activities are conducted to the highest standards of quality and governance.

Please note some of these posts may be reserved for Sole UK Nationals.

We champion flexible ways of working. Regular in-person attendance is required (this is expected to be approximately 60% of your working week) to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance and business need. Initially, you may be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with the site, the team, and your role.

Responsibilities

Depending on the role, you will have responsibilities for delivering a range of Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) Services, covering the following:

• Design of ILS programmes, covering ILS task Work Break Downs (WBD)s and strategies to capture; whole life support cost, reliability, maintainability and availability estimates, to be able to influence support requirements, concepts and doctrine.
• Mapping User Requirements into the supportability system requirements and contractual supply end –to-end support requirements. This includes producing technical evaluation assessment criteria for tendering, awarding, monitoring & assessing contractual performance, and for their achievement to the specified ILS design and support milestone criteria.
• Producing ILS Plans and Use Cases. This includes monitoring support development progress and agreeing the results of associated ILS trials, tests, evaluations and demonstrations against the related project milestone/target.
• Producing supportability cases and bodies of evidence for identifying, managing and mitigating supportability risks, to influence optimal approaches by conducting Supportability Analysis (SA) and to negotiate and recommend trade-offs, alternative support solutions and options for consideration.
• Verifying and validating ILS deliverables to pre-position optimal levels of supply support investments, management regimes and resources, for setting equipment support policy directives on the in-service maintenance and supply chain arrangements.
• Establishing, maintaining and communicating the through life logistic support technical data information repositories, including content, structure, data module formats, and considering the information/asset access rights and intellectual property design/repair restrictions.
• Leading a team, including advice and guidance on support matters to everyone within their business areas.
• Monitoring and implementing governance and assurance policies and procedures, to their assigned business areas, ensuring capability support solutions are cost affordable, supportable and within business and Defence assurance envelopes.
  
  

Person specification

To be successful with your application, you'll need to show evidence of meeting the following essential criteria:

• Delivering and managing an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) programme/project(s) or major ILS milestone as part of customer service.
• Evaluating support related reviews for improving support, resolving disputes and reducing whole life cost expenditure.
• Producing and scrutinising reports for complex issues and trends for communicating
• recommendations and alternative approaches.
• Proficiency in use and management of Logistic Information Systems/Repositories
  
  

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competences and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

• Core Behaviour 1: Changing and Improving
• Core Behaviour 2: Communicating and Influencing
• Technical Competence 1: Develop and Implement a Support Solution - Expert
• Technical Competence 2: Design Support Capability Requirements - Practitioner
  
  

Alongside your salary of £45,200, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,094 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• 25 days’ annual leave +1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• Market-leading average employer pension contribution of 28.97%
• Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards
• Access to specialist training and funded qualifications
• Support for progression
• Huge range of discounts
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave schemes
  
  

Improving innovation and enriching our culture, diversity of thought is vital to our success. So whether you’re looking for a new opportunity, a next step, or a helping hand as you return from a career break, bring your experiences and help deliver for the defence of tomorrow. Here you’ll find a supportive, family-friendly organisation to be a part of - and if you need any assistance with your application, just let us know.

Further Information

• Civil Service Recruitment Principles: Recruitment Principles - Civil Service Commission
• Candidate Information Pack: https://bit.ly/DES-Candidate-Information-Pack
• Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/DES-Terms-and-Conditions
• Civil Service Code: The Code - Civil Service Commission
  
  

Any personal data that you provide during the Recruitment process will be treated in accordance with the MOD Privacy Notice which can be accessed here.



Please note as a Disability Confident Leader we want to ensure you receive any reasonable adjustments that you need throughout the recruitment process. If you do require any reasonable adjustments, you can let us know on your online application under the section ‘Please indicate and give details of any reasonable adjustments you may require during the recruitment process.

Selection process details

Your application will go through the following stages of assessment:

• Pre-sift - We will check that you meet any essential or eligibility criteria that are listed in the Person Specification section of this advert. On your CV, please clearly show how you meet the essential criteria.
• Sift - Your CV will be assessed against the following categories, using a simple numerical scoring system: Key Achievements; Relevant Experience; Applied Knowledge and Skills. Please follow our guidance on CV writing for best chance of success.
• Interview - If you're invited to interview, you'll be assessed against the Sift categories (CV Review) listed above, as well as the Technical Competences and Behaviours listed in the Person Specification section of this advert.
  
  

Please Note: In the event of a tied score at interview, the Order of Merit will be distinguished based on the relative importance of the assessed competencies as per the hierarchy below:

• 1st: Core Behaviour 1
• 2nd: Core Behaviour 2
• 3rd: Technical Competencies
• 4th: CV Review
  
  

In the event of a further tie using the method above, we reserve the right to utilise an additional assessment.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance you should contact department via email: [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Recruitment Complaints - Civil Service Commission

Declaration of Outside Interests.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

Offering at a lower level

If you’re not successful at interview, we may offer you a role at a lower level if this is a match for your skills and experience. If this applies to your application, you’ll be scored against criteria for the lower-level role and offers will be made in merit order. If you accept this position, you’ll be able to take advantage of opportunities to develop your career as part of our team.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Eva Manley - DE&S Talent Acquisition Specialist
• Email : [email protected]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]
  
  

Further information

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