Logistics Team Leader

Job Title: Logistics Team Leader

Location: Samlesbury, On site – 5 days per week, including an occasional requirement to come in on nightshift and Sundays.

Salary: £59,938+ DOE

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

In this role you will oversee a team responsible for supporting material, tool, and product movements within a high-rate manufacturing environment. You will ensure resources, processes, and operational activities are effectively coordinated to support production requirements, while driving team performance, compliance, and continuous improvement. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you will play a key role in enabling manufacturing delivery through robust leadership, planning, and logistics management.

Core duties:

• Oversee, develop, and guide a logistics team operating across multiple shift patterns, ensuring workloads, resources, and priorities are effectively aligned to business requirements
• Govern the movement of materials, parts, tools, and finished products across the business, ensuring compliance with tool control, audit, and shipment requirements
• Monitor team performance, capability, wellbeing, and attendance, ensuring appropriate training, competence, and compliance standards are maintained
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure materials and tools are available in line with production schedules and operational priorities
• Champion Operational Excellence and Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) behaviours through continuous improvement activities, team engagement, and methodical leadership

Essential Skills:

• Demonstrable leadership experience within a logistics, manufacturing, operational, or production environment, with responsibility for developing people, monitoring performance, and driving results
• Experience building effective relationships across multiple stakeholder groups, influencing outcomes and communicating effectively at all levels of an organisation
• Knowledge of logistics, production control, material management, and associated business processes, ideally within a manufacturing, aerospace, or engineering environment
• Experience using ERP systems and operational reporting tools to support planning, performance management, and decision-making
• Good understanding of Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) principles and risk management within a logistics or operational environment; a professional logistics qualification (e.g. APICS CPIM or CILT) is desirable or willingness to obtain

The Logistics Team:

The Logistics Team plays a critical role in supporting one of the Air sector’s largest defence programmes, ensuring materials, tools, and products are available where and when they are needed to support manufacturing operations. Working across production, planning, and wider business functions, the team drives efficient material flow, operational performance, and continuous improvement. It offers opportunities to develop leadership, logistics, and operational management experience within a complex and highly collaborative manufacturing environment.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 18th November 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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