Title: ILS Practitioner
Location: Canberra
ILS Practitioner At Randstad Defence, we’re proud to be partnering with a leading force in the design, development, and manufacturing of advanced defence systems, currently seeking an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Practitioner to join their team in Canberra. If you are a dedicated professional looking to apply integrated logistics support practices and ensure whole-of-life outcomes are achieved, this opportunity is for you to join a growing Australian technology company.
The candidate must be an Australian citizen and be eligible for a security clearance.
About the role: We are looking for an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Practitioner to support a major defence program. In this role, you will contribute to the planning, development, and delivery of supportability and sustainment outputs across the program lifecycle, ensuring products can be operated, maintained, and supported safely, effectively, and in accordance with contractual and regulatory requirements. You will work closely with Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, Quality, Production, and the customer to define and manage ILS requirements, coordinate support system design, and maintain clear evidence of compliance and traceability.
Key Responsibilities:
Support development and maintenance of the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Plan and associated schedules, deliverables, and reporting for the program.
Elicit, analyse, and manage ILS/supportability requirements (including contractual and customer requirements) and support traceability through to verification evidence.
Contribute to support system design activities, including support concept development, maintenance philosophy, supportability trade studies, and through-life considerations.
Conduct and/or support logistics engineering and analyses as required (e.g., LSA/LSAR, maintenance task analysis, level of repair analysis, spares/provisioning, support equipment, facilities, and infrastructure needs).
Coordinate technical data inputs to training, technical publications, and maintenance documentation to ensure support products reflect the approved configuration and support concept.
Support reliability and maintainability activities (e.g., RAM inputs, failure reporting, corrective action support, and maintainability considerations) in collaboration with Engineering and Quality.
Assist with obsolescence management planning and sustainment risk identification, including logging, tracking, and supporting mitigation actions.
Liaise with Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, and ILS stakeholders to ensure support products and provisioning align with build, test, delivery, and in-service needs.
Support ILS reviews, audits, and customer engagements by preparing evidence packs, responding to actions, and maintaining accurate records.
Identify continuous improvement opportunities for ILS processes, data quality, and tool usage, escalating issues as required.
About You: Successful candidates will help enable the transition from design to sustainment by developing ILS artefacts such as support concepts, maintenance plans, training and technical documentation inputs, spares/provisioning recommendations, and logistics data to support in-service operations. You are an ethical influencer with strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and facilitation skills, coupled with high attention to detail.
Qualifications and Experience:
Demonstrated experience in an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) and/or logistics engineering role within an engineering or product development environment (defence programs preferred).
Working knowledge of ILS principles and deliverables across the lifecycle, including support concept, maintenance planning, provisioning/spares, training, and technical publications inputs.
Experience supporting logistics analyses and data (e.g., LSA/LSAR, maintenance task analysis, LORA, spares optimisation, support equipment and facilities considerations) and communicating outcomes to stakeholders.
Familiarity with reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) concepts and how they influence supportability and sustainment outcomes.
Experience producing and controlling ILS artefacts, maintaining evidence/traceability, and contributing to reviews, audits, and customer engagements.
Comfort working with technical teams to interpret drawings, bills of material, procedures, and changes to ensure support products remain aligned to the design baseline.
Eligible to obtain and maintain Baseline security clearance (or currently hold Baseline).
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