Job Title: Obsolescence Manager

Job Location: Crawley (West Sussex), UK

Job ID – 14441

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Crawley specialise in technology and systems to enable quality pilot training from distance learning systems applications and maintenance solutions to training devices and full flight simulators, our technology covers the complete training spectrum.

A few of our employee benefits

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days

• Private medical insurance with optional family cover

• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution

• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)

• Group income protection

• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme

• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

• Subsidised staff restaurant

  About the role

  The role provides a great opportunity for an experienced engineer looking to take on greater technical responsibilities and have greater influence on the commercial aspects that affect the financial performance of the business. This role will present an opportunity to work with a range of stakeholders within the customer community both technical and commercial and will be instrumental in improving our customer satisfaction by delivering the best possible solutions to our customers.

  This role is responsible for determining how obsolescence will be managed in a controlled and systematic way. Through analysis of how the CTS business operates and understanding the internal and external operating challenges, the role will be responsible for developing an obsolescence management strategy and subsequently defining the policies and designing the processes to deliver the strategy.

  A key responsibility is to determine what obsolescence management capability is needed to deliver the strategy and support investment decisions relating resource, personnel training and tooling. This is a strategic role that will report to the Aftermarket Engineer Solution Lead and will work closely with stakeholders across the different functions of CTS and the aftermarket team. The individual is expected to have a sound commercial awareness and strong business acumen.

  Responsibilities will include

• Develop and introduce obsolescence management strategy and policy for Aftermarket, ensuring that overall business issues are identified and addressed.

• Develop and implement effective and appropriate internal obsolescence management processes and capabilities that enable the Aftermarket strategy to be executed.

• Contribute to the development and execution of strategic plans for products and systems to meet current and future customer requirements.

• Ensure all obsolescence management activities are integrated with other engineering and supportability disciplines across CTS.

  What you’ll bring

  The role of Programme Manager requires the following experience and skills:

• A working knowledge of the current IEC 62402 Obsolescence Management Standard and other key obsolescence management related standards.

• Degree qualified in an Engineering or equivalent experience and knowledge.

• A working knowledge of Obsolescence Management tools and solutions.

• Has 5yrs experience as an Obsolescence Manager and has developed and implemented obsolescence management strategies, policies, processes and capabilities.

• Has previously held accountability for an organisation’s obsolescence management capability.

• Familiarity with in-service support principles and experience of confident and challenging participation within engineering project design and peer reviews.

• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Experience across design, and systems engineering approaches.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong teamworking skills that can work across functions.

• Business acumen and commercial awareness.

• Possesses strong organisational and time-management skills.

  Please note: Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK

  As an equal opportunities’ employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

  We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.