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Reliability and Maintainability Engineer

Job Description

Location: Paco De Arcos - Q45, Portugal

For more than 35 years, Thales acts in Portugal for global Defense and Aerospace markets, promoting and delivering innovative solutions that enhance its customer’s critical systems´ security on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, through a technical team of excellence.

We are currently looking for an Reliability and Maintainability Specialist Engineer to join our Airspace Mobility Solutions team! You will have the opportunity of working in an exciting and technically challenging domain, being a technical stream leader within projects that are developing world-leading technology on the air traffic control domain.

Responsibilities:

  • Execute and support Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities such as deliverables, support strategy, system specification, verification, validation, and test plans.

  • Conduct and review Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) tasks including failure mode analysis, reliability-centered maintenance and repair analyses.

  • Validate and develop support inventory procurement, distribution strategies, and support/test equipment requirements.

  • Develop, review, update, and distribute technical documentation and maintenance/support plans.

  • Assist with subcontractor coordination and warranty support/repair claims management.

  • Perform Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) and Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis and modeling.

  • Optimize spares modeling and support contract strategies.

  • Support ILS contract cost updates, quantitative risk assessments, trade-off strategies, and negotiations with customers and subcontractors.

What we look forward to:

  • Minimum 5 years of experience on Integrated Logistics Support Management,
    Engineering and/or Analyst role;

  • Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related fields;

  • Formal training in Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) and/or Supportability Engineering disciplines;

  • Experience in LSA, FMECA, RCM, MTA, LORA, LCC, RAM, TNA and Technical Publications;

  • Skills in software tools used to perform ILS and Support tasks as Windchill Quality Solutions (Relex), OmegaPS or EAGLE LSAR, OPUS10, SIMLOG, Arbortext 1000D;

  • Expert skills in the MS Office Suite of Tools (Excel and Access);

  • Experience in managing small to medium multidisciplinary teams;

  • Written and oral proficiency in English;

  • Availability for business travelling.

The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.
 

For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realize individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Jéssica Carrasqueira is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.

Jéssica Carrasqueira – Talent Acquisition Partner

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Job Details

Category
Aerospace Engineering
Employment Type
Contract
Location
Paco De Arcos - Q45
Posted
Mar 15, 2026, 08:00 PM
Listed
Mar 10, 2026, 12:30 PM
Last updated
Mar 18, 2026, 01:51 AM

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