RCM Practitioner/ Facilitator

CXC Global EMEA is delighted to be working in partnership with the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defence, space, and security systems. They are engineers, technicians, skilled scientists and thinkers, bold innovators, and dreamers. By joining them, you can help build something better for their customers and for the world. They are innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you will learn and grow; contributing to work that shapes the world.

Our client are looking for an RCM Practitioner / Facilitator to support new business opportunities and existing product platforms, mainly fixed and rotor wing aircraft. The role is offered on a 6 month initial contract and is inside IR35.

They are responsible for delivering several exciting contracts to our UK defence customers including new capabilities like the E-7 AEW&C and the P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Autonomous Systems, C4ISR Services, Support for the Chinook & Apache Fleets, Logistic Information Services and Training Services and are very much in a growth phase.

The engineering function operates a matrix organisation consisting of engineering departments that deliver technical skills, expertise and products into our programmes. This role will be in the Product Support Engineering Department.

The Department consists of the following technical areas:

• Reliability Centred Maintenance Analysis
• Reliability and Maintainability
• Logistic Support Analysis
• Engineering Data Exploitation
• Obsolescence Management
• Technical Publications
• Integrated Logistic Support Engineering

As an RCM engineer, you will call upon your experience to facilitate and implement RCM philosophies and techniques whilst remaining compliant with the appropriate regulatory standards. You will report to the Support Engineering Manager whilst being technically supported by the RCM Technical Lead and our other capability specialists within the department.

In the role, you shall:

• Conduct RCM analysis to agreed scope, quality and timescales
• Review and process change requests initiated as part of continuous improvement processes, i.e., feedback from maintenance execution, failure investigations and reliability studies
• Ensure proposed changes are compliant with agreed standards
• Understand the customer requirements and advise on good RCM practice
• Provide management reporting on progress (KPI’s / Close-out reports)
• Ensure defined RCM tasks are implemented / updated in the relevant tools
• Maintain and further strengthen the reliability foundations, following a methodological approach.
• Aside from your technical work you there is the potential to support company initiatives, for example, quality improvements, promoting a safety culture, promoting Diversity and Inclusion, mentoring and coaching, STEM outreach and a number of focus projects to support the growth of the company and its employees.

Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

The preferred candidate will have some of the following:

• Essential to be able to obtain or already hold UK SC security clearance
• Engineer with a strong maintenance/ engineering background
• Knowledge and application experience of RCM-II or FMEA principles, practices and applications and/or MSG-3 methodology.
• Ideally have a Defence background but this is not essential
• Knowledge and application experience of risk & reliability management systems and techniques
• Proven ability to drive first time quality
• An understanding of the principles of Risk & Opportunity Management
• Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, in particular MS Word, and Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
• Ideally you will be educated to degree level in a relevant Engineering subject, and or received some formal training in Support Engineering principles

Apply today!