Operations Manager

Job Title: Operations Manager

Location: Warton/Samlesbury

Salary: £63,900+ (depending on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for leading a large and diverse team to deliver cutting edge products to a worldwide customer base, with accountabilities including Safety, Cost, Quality, and Delivery of aircraft components across our Details or Assembly businesses
• Provide emphasis on local strategy development and implementation, being a champion for change and enhancing a culture that supports the implementation of functional and business strategies
• Analysing and challenging reports in your area of accountability, identifying and influencing opportunities to maximise affordability and improve business performance across the following financially controlled processes:
  • Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
  • Schedule Performance Indicators (SPI)
  • Cost Performance Indicators (CPI)
  • Contract Status Reviews (CSR)
• Collaboration, communication and engagement to cohesively manage stakeholder relationships across the function and wider business

Your skills and experiences:

• Previous Operational experience as a Senior Executive within a Manufacturing or similar environment with specific learning in a delivery phase of a programme – utilising systems, tools, and structure to influence objective outcomes around Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and People
• Experience of production methodology, operational excellence and relevant tool sets i.e. Policy Deployment and other Lean practices in order to demonstrate their use to deliver process improvement and reliability of business outputs
• Demonstrate ability to manage conflict, negotiate trade-offs and deliver solutions that aim to build a collaborative approach

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 Manufacturing Operations team:

Positioning BAE Systems as a reliable partner in the global supply chain and fostering the success of high, medium, and low-rate production facilities are just a few of the many opportunities that await you as part of the Manufacturing Operations team. You will have the chance to lead and manage a production workforce, directly impacting the delivery of complex aircraft and service solutions. Maintaining operational excellence, embracing new technologies, and pushing for ongoing process improvements will maintain BAE Systems at the forefront of the aerospace sector.

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: 27^th September 2024

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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