IPS Engineer

Job Title: IPS EngineerJob Description

The IPS Engineer (Integrated Logistics Support Analyst) plays a key role in sustaining complex systems throughout their life cycle by organizing, analyzing, and managing provisioning and supportability data. This position serves as a technical liaison between engineering teams, technical writers, and technical artists, ensuring that Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) requirements are accurately captured, documented, and delivered through Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL) submissions. The role focuses on understanding how hardware is used and maintained in the field, identifying real-world issues that may be overlooked in design, and driving policies, guidelines, and procedures that improve reliability, availability, maintainability, safety, and overall supportability.

Responsibilities

• Support the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) team, including engineers, technical writers, technical artists, and leadership, with tasks related to system sustainment throughout the product life cycle.
• Prepare accurate and complete information for inclusion in ILS Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL) documents for submission to government customers, ensuring timely processing.
• Organize ILS data in a content management (CM) database and ensure CM processes and standards are consistently followed.
• Assume ownership and technical management of ILS provisioning and component information to produce downstream reports such as Source of Supply, Selected Item Drawings, Marking Plans, and related documentation.
• Provide technical input and act as an engineering liaison between design, systems engineering, and the ILS team, with no direct design responsibilities.
• Serve as a technical expert for technical writers and artists who develop Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals for hardware used by the Department of Defense.
• Support ILS leadership with administrative duties including preparing presentations, attending and contributing to meetings, and assisting in task book development.
• Maintain and communicate clear status updates for all active projects and manage metrics that reflect project health and progress.
• Provide provisioning support related to Lowest Replaceable Unit (LRU) data and maintain status of Diminishing Material Supply and Material Shortages (DMSMS) for LRUs.
• Lead the development of policies, guidelines, and procedures that enhance supportability, reliability, safety, and life cycle performance of systems.
• Provide subject matter expertise in supportability analysis domains such as Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Suitability, Environmental and hazardous material requirements, Total Ownership Cost, Life Cycle Cost, and Reliability Centered Maintenance.
• Participate in the systems engineering process from design inception through the full life cycle to influence design for supportability and maximize availability, effectiveness, and capability.
• Analyze, organize, plan, and administer various phases of day-to-day provisioning, spares planning, and maintenance/repair activities.
• Participate in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis sessions and provisioning conferences, providing technical and logistical insight.
• Provide technical and programmatic support for DMSMS and obsolescence management, helping to mitigate risks associated with aging or unavailable components.
• Develop, review, and provide supportability analyses, including metrics such as Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), for inclusion in CDRL submissions.
• Develop, review, and provide safety analyses such as System Safety Hazard Analysis Reports (SSHARs), including supporting information and remedial action recommendations.
• Analyze contractual documents, engineering drawings, technical data, customer usage data, maintenance practices, operational characteristics, and related reports to determine spares provisioning and maintenance/repair strategies.
• Perform data provisioning by analyzing engineering drawings and understanding how they impact the end user, maintaining a clear view of the overall system and its real-world use.
• Review approximately 150 designs and conceptualize how to disassemble and reassemble components, identifying practical issues that may be overlooked by design and pinpointing drawing errors.
• Field questions from technical writers and other cross-functional team members, providing clear, concise, and technically accurate guidance.
• Apply quality and reliability principles to identify subjective faults, failure modes, and areas for improvement in repair and maintenance strategies.
• Continuously develop and maintain skills and knowledge required for the position and align work with organizational goals and objectives.
• Work collaboratively with co-workers, contractors, and customers in a highly cross-functional environment.

Essential Skills

• Experience in Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), provisioning, spares planning, or maintenance/repair activities, with at least 5 years of job-related experience, preferably supporting Department of Defense programs.
• Strong ability to interpret and analyze engineering drawings and blueprints, including conceptualizing how systems are assembled, disassembled, and maintained.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite for data analysis, documentation, presentations, and reporting.
• Hands-on, practical mindset with a strong curiosity about how things work and a comfort with taking things apart and reassembling them to understand function and potential failure points.
• Knowledge of Lowest Replaceable Unit (LRU) concepts and experience managing LRU-related data.
• Experience with Diminishing Material Supply and Material Shortages (DMSMS) and obsolescence management for components and systems.
• Background in quality systems or quality assurance, with the ability to identify faults and improvement opportunities in processes and documentation.
• Experience in reliability engineering or reliability analysis, including familiarity with failure rates, reliability test concepts, and level-of-repair analysis.
• Ability to conduct and interpret supportability analyses such as Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
• Ability to develop and review safety analyses, including System Safety Hazard Analysis Reports (SSHARs) and remedial action recommendations.
• Strong organizational skills to manage large volumes of ILS data within content management databases and to maintain accurate project status and metrics.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including engineers, technical writers, and cross-functional partners.
• Ability to obtain or hold a security clearance, as required by program needs.
• Proficiency with spreadsheet-based analysis and data handling, including Excel.
• Experience working with or understanding ERP systems in a logistics or engineering context.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Education in a related technical field or equivalent experience in Engineering, Science, or a related academic discipline.
• Experience with product safety considerations and environmental/hazardous material requirements.
• Familiarity with Total Ownership Cost and Life Cycle Cost analysis for complex systems.
• Experience participating in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analyses and provisioning conferences.
• Background in suitability and maintainability considerations for fielded systems.
• Exposure to interactive electronic technical manuals and familiarity with how technical content supports end users and maintainers.
• Experience with validation activities related to quality systems, reliability, or logistics processes.
• Comfort acting in a liaison role between design engineering, systems engineering, logistics, and documentation teams.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment, fielding questions from technical writers and other stakeholders and providing clear guidance.
• Understanding of logistics processes, including spares provisioning, maintenance planning, and repair strategies.

Work Environment

The role is based in an office setting with a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment. You work closely with engineering teams, technical writers, technical artists, logistics personnel, and other functional areas, often using personal digital assistants (PDAs), content management systems, ERP tools, and standard office software such as the Microsoft Office suite. The position follows a hybrid work arrangement, with time spent onsite during busier periods that require closer coordination and hands-on collaboration, and the option to work in a hybrid pattern when workloads allow. The culture emphasizes teamwork, open communication, and a practical, hands-on approach to understanding how systems operate in real-world conditions.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Burnsville, MN.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $40.00 - $60.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Burnsville,MN.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 7, 2026.

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