ILS Manager

Job description

ILS Manager Engineering | Challenger 3 Programme | Bristol, Telford or Washington | Full Time, Perm Closing Date: 07th November 2026 About the Company Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) is a defence engineering company based in the UK. We design, manufacture and support military vehicles used by the British Army and international customers.

Position Overview

As the ILS Manager for the Challenger 3 Programme you will become a key part of our team, leading and executing your technical area to enable the successful delivery of our products and services. You will report directly to the Engineering Lead and will be accountable for and lead the teams developing the Supportability aspects of Challenger 3 Responsibilities:

Position Duties and Responsibilities

Provide leadership of the Supportability team ensuring that the relevant SQEP is present across the team. This may be through your own directly managed staff or through the utilisation of staff managed in central engineering functions as dictated by the business’ engineering operating model. Taking accountability for the Supportability engineering of Challenger 3. Working jointly with the other first line engineering domain leads to ensure a coherent and balanced technical solution, acceptable to the customer and business.

Defining, managing and overseeing completion of the system and sub-system Supportability development lifecycles, resulting in the output of qualified system and sub-system designs with the required evidence at project milestone points (e.g. critical design review, system qualification review, etc.). Working in conjunction with the other domain leads to gain customer acceptance against the full suite of System Requirements.

Leading and/or attending design reviews to support maturity management and ensure/assure adherence to the system and sub-system development lifecycles. Ensuring that there is a high quality of technical output across the Supportability engineering team, including the management of key technical decisions and issues to successful conclusions. Providing the primary engineering interface to the customer including the definition and agreement of requirements and management of the customer acceptance process.

Representing the business at customer meetings and reviews for your area of responsibility. Reporting on your area of responsibility and representing the project at business level reviews. Generation of project documentation and customer deliverables to the contract data requirements list schedule. Providing engineering input to customer submissions including cost estimating and programme plans.