ABOUT OUR CLIENT

Our client is a main contractor in the Navy and shipbuilding industry and is currently hiring an ILS Manager for its Engineering Department.

PERSONAL QUALITIES AND EXPERIENCES

As in charge of the ILS management at Whole Warship level (PF and CS and Transverse activities), you will be able to monitor complex ILS development tasks on your own or in the form of workshops with the partners. You have a good understanding of the requirements of recognized standards and specific software and databases.
You have a good command of IT tools to improve the productivity and quality of your studies (Macros, document proforma, study monitoring tables and adapted indicators, study planning, storage tree structure for documents and study data, etc.).
In this field, you will manage the regular meetings of the design team and ensure that these meetings are useful for the team and remain efficient.
You will contribute to the preparation of bids in the field of studies and interactions between design, procurement and production.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Engineering graduate (Master level) with proven successful experience as ILS Designer/Manager on effectively complex Naval products, if possible in international environment. In this field, a proven knowledge of the ILS databases of both Italian and French Navies is mandatory;
• you are able to present your work to demanding customers and convince them of the quality and the correctness of your design results;
• a good knowledge of combat vessels and their Combat System, their functional and physical trees would be a plus;
• professional English (speaking, writing and reading) is essential for the work. Capabilities to speak Italian and French is a plus in the particular bi-national context;
• you are organized, you have proven leadership, listening and understanding skills to manage the ILS design activities. Team building is important for you;
• you are able to integrate subcontracted studies into the activities and work in a multinational context. You will be able to integrate 3rd parties’ activities and programmatic interfaces in the Company own tasks.

The Design Package Manager is an experienced engineer, familiar with the design of Integrated Logistic System of complex projects, with knowledge in the main areas of Reliability, Availability and Maintainability, and able to manage the ILS package produced by different partners and deliver the expected ILS data package to the end-users.

The main responsibilities of the ILS Manager are:

• prepare the conditions for the proper execution of ILS studies from the start of the program and ensure the non-technical management of design activities during the contract. Successful experience in managing ILS studies in an international cooperation environment is required.
• prepare, in close relations with suppliers, the deliverables due from the Company and ensure that they are in accordance with the Quality, Cost and Schedule objectives defined by the programme;
• oversee closely the activities related to ILS studies which are performed by main partners;
• contribute to the continuous improvement of Engineering performance in the field of ILS studies through appropriate organization and tools;
• manage the interfaces about ILS with the supliers of systems for the program by managing regular meetings and reviews;
• contribute, in his/her scope of responsibility, to the elaboration of offers, in particular by estimating the costs of engineering activities, in connection with the other contributors of the company.

The ILS Manager will be responsible for monitoring the design expenditure of the projects he/she manages. He/she will have to control the parameters that are essential to the success of the studies, i.e. the deadlines and the costs of the studies.