Integrated Logistics Support Specialist

NATS is the UK's leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Salary: £62,278.99 - £83,038.65

Closing Date: 23rd January 2026

To ensure that the ILS process is applied to a delegated set of new and existing assets in order to maximise the cost effectiveness of support and maintenance arrangements in a manner that is consistent with safety and business goals.

• In support of assets being developed as part of LTIP projects to ensure that the asset's support is appropriate to meet the business needs. These accountabilities include:
  • Influence the project design to ensure that cost effective support is included in the asset's design from its initial concept.
  • Analysis of the asset's Life Cycle Costs including proposing alternative support strategies to minimise the support costs.
  • Develop the support plan for new assets to define the maintenance regime, support arrangements and spares holding policies.
  • Develop the ILS Statement of Works to support the design and implementation stages of a project.
  • Ensure the provision of technical support documentation.
  • Assessment of the impact of design changes on the proposed support model and costs.
  • Define and agree the in-service support contracts (maintenance services, licenses and Post-Design Services) for the new asset ensuring that use of existing contracts is considered where this can demonstrate good value for money.
  • In conjunction with the Safety Team analyse undertake an Availability Reliability Maintainability (ARM) and FMECA analysis of the proposed design to provide assurance that the design meets the required levels of performance.
• In support of in‑service assets to ensure that the asset is being effectively supported and can continue to be supported throughout its remaining life. These accountabilities include:
  • Manage the asset support contracts with suppliers and manage these suppliers effectively, maintaining effective face to face relationships with key suppliers.
  • Monitor spares usage and consumption to ensure that sufficient spares are available at the point of need and monitor usage trends to identify potential issues.
  • Review fault reports, maintenance and repair records and Mean Time Between Defect and Mean Time to Repair data to identify performance trends and make appropriate recommendations to resolve identified system support issues.
  • Regularly review equipment maintenance policies, and recommend changes where needed as part of the Asset Health Review process.
  • Provide a help‑line function for maintenance and ADA staff for support issues.
  • Manage obsolescence issues for in‑service equipment.

• Providing specialist logistics support and related services to Asset Manager / Asset Operator and Programmes.
• Determining and implementing policies to ensure that engineering support of in‑service equipment by Asset Health Reviews is provided as part of the Asset Operator of Logistics.
• Specialist detailed knowledge of integrated logistics support analysis is required to enable the job holder to determine the most efficient and effective means of providing in‑service engineering support on an equipment‑by‑equipment basis. These techniques are applied by the job holder as a major input to future projected operational equipment. The output from this work, for which the job holder is accountable, includes a preferred maintenance policy with costed options which cover definition of maintenance and post‑design service support, spares, training requirements, etc.
  
  This output provides future planning information covering lifecycle support of equipment, which is used in 5‑year business plan projections.
• Assessment of requested engineering changes is a significant part of the job. Specialist knowledge of the impact of requested changes on Logistics sites and services provided from these sites is required in order to advise the…