Manufacture Team Leader

Job Description

Job Title: Manufacture Team Leader

Location: Cowes

Salary: Circa £40,000 Depending on Skills and Experience

What you’ll be doing:

·        Complete daily booking checks and validation to ensure team’s attendance is correctly captured to ensure pay is correct and the company invoices hours for payment

·        Engage, listen and effectively communicate to teams of responsibility to optimise delivery performance

·        Manage teams of responsibility will range in size due to the scale and complexity of the work but will be between 1 to 12 or 1 to 16 with surge

·        Have day to day responsibility of teams’ performance management and development to include attendance, sickness, overtime approvals, training (where appropriate) and PDP’s (Personal Development Plans)

·        Lead a continuously improving culture within teams of responsibility that will provide year on year benefit

·        Be responsible for resource allocation ensuring team are SQEP to conduct tasks

·        Ensure compliance to production plans, Service Order scheduling and allocation of orders via selected toolsets

·        Be responsible and accountable for daily bookings and teams utilisation to ensure financial performance meets budgeted targets

·        Review tasks to ensure they have been completed to required standards which will result in robust right first time work acceptance performance

·        Ensure risk and method statements are in place and given so work is completed to the high SHE standards

·        Where appropriate – will support a Cost Account Lead (CAM) for work packages across a class ensuring time, cost and quality

Your skills and experiences:

·        Have a clear understanding of how team integrates with others to achieve objectives and the team’s impact upon the financial and customer relationship

·        Utilize and drive the selected business process and tool sets to enable effective delivery performance

·        Use technical and business expertise to establish solutions to production challenges that will enable reliable delivery performance

·        Be responsible for team outputs ensuring safety, quality and cost performance is delivered to the highest standards

·        Hold high levels of SHE knowledge that will require Risk Assessment and Method Statements skills and functional knowledge. Ideally either IOSH or NEBOSH trained

Desirable:

·        Experience in manufacturing systems, enterprise toolsets, SAP, Manufacture resource planning

·        Experience Leading / managing a team

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Cowes Manufacturing Team:

With our international programmes and core support to UK MoD, you will work on, both new build manufacture and through life support of complex Land and Sea Radar systems. The projects you’ll be involved in will form the backbone of the UK Armed forces and civil air traffic management for decades to come.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 4th December 2023

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.