Product Life Cycle Engineer – Service Logistics

Join Our Team as a Product Life Cycle Engineer – Service Logistics

About the team

At our headquarters in Hengelo the Engineering department is responsible for the entire development cycle of our radar products, services and solutions, consisting of concept definition, system design, system integration and validation.

In this department the Supportability Engineering group, consists of 50 domain experts and is responsible for the definition, development and realization of ILS (Integrated Logistics Support) for our radars, electro-optical systems and combat management systems. Supportability Engineering consists of the disciplines; ILS Engineering, Obsolescence Management, Customer Documentation, and Customer Training.

In the ILS engineering team, we are looking to strengthen our team with a Project Lifecycle Engineer.

The Project Lifecycle Engineers support our customer programs from an availability point of view during the lifecycle of their systems. Their goal is to design maximal system availability against optimal life-cycle costs for the customer.

About your future job

As a Project Life Cycle Engineer you are involved in the service-logistics aspects of the systems that are developed at Thales Naval in Hengelo. You have an important role during the complete life-cycle of the system ensuring effective support to new and existing systems; from influencing the system design in its initial state, through sustaining supportability characteristics during In-Service phase until system decommissioning.

You will collaborate with project and product development teams where radars, electro-optical systems and combat management systems are developed. Your activities consist of:

• Analyzing, developing and proposing cost and effort efficient maintenance solutions by means of several support analyses (LSA) in order to achieve the maximum availability of the customers’ assets;
• Determining repair and maintenance requirements, identify maintenance significant items and deciding required maintenance activities and resources;
• Supporting the project manager in delivering the developed solution in bid and execution phase and in tailoring it to the end user specifications. To do so, you will also have meetings with customers, prime contractors and subcontractors on the proposed support concepts.
• Project management of supportability activities (Training, Logistic Engineering, Documentation)
• Perform cost calculations to support the formulation of proposals for the offered solution. To realize this, you master several statistical and mathematical tools.

As a Product Life Cycle Engineer you can specialize in the same area of expertise or follow a growth path to other service engineering functions at Thales. Broaden yourself in the area where your interests are. In your job you will work together with colleagues of various departments, therefore you can identify your own opportunities to develop yourself.

Why you'd be a good match

• A graduate or finished Bachelor or Master degree in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar;
• Strong communicative skills with a high degree on initiative, creativity, pragmatism and persuasiveness;
• Interested in supportability/availability engineering principles and analysis with a wide variety of complex technical products;
• Affinity with mathematical and statistical tooling;
• Fluent in English, German is a plus.
• You like working in a new and challenging environment and contributing to the further development of our team.

What's in it for you

• A challenging job in a great team within our high-tech, innovative work environment. Includes the freedom for initiative and good ideas;
• Room for personal and professional growth within our organisation, for example in regards to technical, commercial or international skills;
• Valuable international collaboration with coworkers from 68 different countries around the globe;
• A comfortable work space in a modern environment, with a focus on flexibility and the right work life balance;
• You can usually work where and when you want to be able to do your work as well and efficiently as possible. Within Thales we implement hybrid working, where you can, for example, work from home two days a week if your role allows it;
• A good salary, fitting travel allowance, and the ability to personalise your employment conditions: for instance, you can trade days off for internet costs, our bicycle plan, company fitness and relocation costs;
• 40 days off per year (PTO). Yes, really.

Contact

You can also contact us by sending an email to laurence.janssen@external.thalesgroup.com.

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Security Requirements

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in The Netherlands and employment and/or education history. Some vacancies may require a security clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please refer to the General Intelligence and Security Service.

In lijn met de basisbeveiligingsvereisten van Thales vragen wij kandidaten mogelijk om bewijs omtrent identiteit, werkvergunning en arbeids- plus opleidingsgeschiedenis. Sommige vacatures vereisen ook een security clearance die verdere informatie vereist. Voor meer informatie over wat er nodig is voor bepaalde security clearance, raadpleeg dan de General Intelligence and Security Service.