Logistics Engineer

SUMMARY:
to address supportability during system/product design and analysis as well as define and deliver the associated logistics support elements in order to establish the Operating Support Baselines and ensure system through-life support.

Please note that this is not a business/operations logistics position.

POSITION INFO:
JOB DESCRIPTION

• Ensuring systems are designed for supportability through contributing the logistic aspects of the system architecture, specifications, ICDs and physical designs.
• Creating Physical Breakdown Structures (PBSs) and executing Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs) to ensure the integrity of the product data packs.
• Influencing the equipment design to ensure supportability through providing the logistic components of the system architecture, functional and performance specifications and ICDs, system designs, systems analysis and trade studies.
• Verifying that prime equipment is supportable through executing Logistics Support Analysis (LSA) in accordance with MIL-STD-1388, including: conducting reliability estimations, executing Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), identifying preventive & corrective maintenance tasks, analysing maintenance procedures and resources and proposing design, operations or support improvements.
• Providing operational support (Field Engineering) including, investigating failures and conducting root cause analysis, collaborating on engineering changes to resolve deficiencies and developing work instructions / amended task descriptions.
• Ensuring logistic work is correctly tailored to the intended operational context by developing support concepts, preparing Logistic Engineering Management Plans (LEMP) and preparing maintenance & support verification plans.

• Tech (Eng) (NQF 7) with 6+ years relevant experience in a product development engineering environment; OR
• Eng/ B.Sc (Eng) with 4+ years relevant experience in a product development engineering environment; OR
• Eng with 3+ years relevant experience in a product development engineering environment

• Conducting physical configuration audits
• Using Configuration Management Systems (CMS).
• Using Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
• Executing Logistic Support Analysis (LSA), inclusive of: structuring Physical Breakdown Structures (PBSs), conducting reliability estimations, executing Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), identifying preventive & corrective maintenance tasks, analysing maintenance procedures and resources, drawing conclusions from LSA data, proposing design/operation/support recommendations and creating RAM & LSA information reports
• Verification and validation of logistic support packages

• Recognised domain knowledge of logistic engineering, for high-tech products and large-scale integrated products.
• Logistic and systems engineering methods, procedures, tools and techniques.
• Configuration management practices and systems
• Logistic Engineering Standards, particularly MIL-STD 1388-1A /2B, MIL-STD 1629A and S1000D /S3000D