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Arkeus is an AI-powered defense technology company building sensing systems for autonomous platforms in complex and contested environments. The company is backed by leading venture investors and is entering a major growth phase.
As ILS Manager, you will establish and own the integrated logistics support (ILS) function for Arkeus's defense products. You will ensure each hardware-software system is designed, delivered, and sustained with the appropriate support concept, maintenance approach, spares, training, technical data, and through-life evidence needed for operational availability.
Reporting to the VP of Manufacturing, you will build the ILS framework while personally delivering ILS outcomes for active Australian and international defense programs. You will translate customer and contract requirements into practical support solutions that influence product design, production readiness, acceptance, and in-service support.
This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role. Initially you will work as a team of one, leading through influence and collaborating directly with Design, Product, Manufacturing, and program teams. As demand grows, you will help define the capability, systems, and resourcing needed to scale the function.
Key responsibilities include:
- Establishing Arkeus's ILS operating model, processes, templates, tools, governance, and interfaces across the product lifecycle
- Developing and maintaining Integrated Logistics Support Plans tailored to customer, contract, and program requirements
- Identifying, interpreting, and managing ILS, supportability, and data-item requirements for Australian and international defense projects
- Building ILS activities, dependencies, reviews, and deliverables into program schedules, risks, budgets, and decision gates
- Acting as the senior ILS point of contact for defense customers, primes, and partners
- Leading logistics support analysis, including support concepts, functional analysis, task analysis, maintenance analysis, and logistics support data development
- Influencing product design for supportability, reliability, maintainability, and configuration management
- Developing maintenance strategies, spares provisioning, support equipment, training plans, and technical publications
- Managing in-service support, field data, and continuous improvement
You will work on deep-tech problems involving optics, autonomy, real-time AI, and hardware-software integration. The company emphasizes a close-knit, ego-free team culture with low politics and high trust, where ideas compete on merit. You will have the opportunity to participate in the Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP).
Requirements:
- Experienced ILS or supportability practitioner with demonstrated ability to build a function independently
- Full understanding of the ILS lifecycle and ability to create fit-for-purpose plans, analyses, records, and deliverables that satisfy defense customers
- Comfort with complex products combining electronic and electro-optical hardware, embedded software, and application software
- Ability to connect reliability, maintainability, configuration, and failure data to maintenance tasks, spares, support equipment, training, and technical publications
- Experience across both Australian and overseas defense projects strongly preferred
- Pragmatic, organized, and credible with engineers, technicians, operators, customers, and executives
- Ability to move between strategy and detail, challenge design decisions with evidence, and produce clear, controlled deliverables in a fast-moving environment
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance
