Title: Supportability Consultant Salary range: £45,000 to £60,000 per annum Location: Bristol, Leatherhead, Plymouth, Gloucester or Burton-Upon-Trent. Working Pattern: We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home. Closing date for this role is 6th March 2026 but we would encourage early applications. ROLE DESCRIPTION At Frazer-Nash we help organisations deliver innovative engineering and technical solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable. Our people join us to help improve the world and to learn from some of the best minds in the industry. Our people stay with us because they value our team environment, and the career opportunities provided by our sustained growth. We are looking for engineers to join our established Supportability area who take a systems view of problems and have an interest in optimising support solutions. Supportability Engineering is a hugely varied and versatile area of engineering that is increasingly in demand to ensure that infrastructure, systems and equipment can reach their potential over longer periods of time, with optimised support costs. Our engineers apply supportability techniques in multiple interesting and challenging domains, for example: Critical national infrastructure including our existing and future rail network, nuclear power stations, wind farms and other sources of renewable energy. Key areas of national security and defence including communications programmes (SATCOM, Trunk, Data link, TAC Networks etc ), long term strategic deterrent, armoured and protected mobility vehicles and support equipment, transport and combat aircraft, maritime surface and submarine fleets, and electronic warfare equipment. We collaborate with our clients to understand the causes and impacts of system failure so that we can enable them to make better design decisions and develop optimum maintenance packages. You will be contributing by applying through-life Supportability Engineering, Asset Management or Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) strategies to complex engineering programmes and have a commitment to develop your knowledge of the principles and processes of Supportability Engineering, through practical application and formal training Responsibilities will include: Supporting multidisciplinary projects across our business sectors ( Defence, Security, Energy, Transport and Industry). Adapting and developing methodologies to suit new and existing business areas. Analysis of engineering systems. Contributing to design to ensure systems are reliable, maintainable and sustainable through a range of analytical and practical engineering techniques Experience required: An understanding of the principles of Integrated Logistic / Product Support (ILS / IPS), R&M programmes or Asset Management, gained through practical experience and engineering qualifications. Previous experience with undertaking formal Supportability or R&M analysis as applied to acquisition programmes (may include Supportability Analysis tasks, failure analysis, R&M modelling, and Supportability Case / R&M Case development). Experience of developing Supportability / R&M documentation such as Management Plans, Element Plans, Case Reports. It would be advantageous to have: Understanding of Industry (ASD Series) or MOD standards (DEFSTANS) relevant to IPS, ILS and AR&M. Experience of applying Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) and/or Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM); An understanding of Asset Management and BS ISO 55000 series; Experience of applying supportability within an industry other than Defence ; Project Management experience with exposure to APMP or PRINCE 2 methodologies. Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting. BENEFITS We provide our people with an excellent benefits package* that comprises of: Competitive salary 25 days' holiday entitlement Happy to talk flexible working Holiday sale and purchase scheme Enhanced parental benefits Company pension scheme Targeted professional development Life assurance Private healthcare membership Bonus scheme linked into company performance Paid membership fees to a professional institution Support in attaining professional membership Cycle to work scheme Season rail ticket loan