Job offer IWT Lead (Constructive)

Job Title: IWT Lead (Constructive)

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base

Salary: Up to £52,000 depending on skills and experiences + bonus

Can you lead a team supporting fast paced projects across a section of vessels? If so, we have a great opportunity here at BAE Systems for a IWT Lead at our site in Portsmouth.

What you'll be doing:

SHE Leadership: Develop and demonstrate high levels of safety, health, and environmental (SHE) behaviours through strategic improvements and the positive promotion of safety awareness, risk management, and compliance
Accountability: Ensure maintenance services and production outputs meet safety, quality, work acceptance, and cost performance standards
Resource Management: Submit resource demand information for sign-off to ensure robust supply solutions across trade groupings and multiple platforms
Team Leadership: Ensure Team Leaders deliver work according to production plans and schedules, maintaining service orders for project deliverables
Continuous Improvement: Champion change, drive improvements, and enforce company processes and tools, ensuring high standards of delivery, problem-solving, and compliance with company policies and values
Your skills and experiences:

Ability to run large complex projects whilst effectively deploying resources and maintaining cost controls, demonstrating numerical, analytical and time management skills. Ideally degree in Business (Or equivalent), APM or experience
Excellent technical abilities and problem-solving skills in chosen trade whilst using sound schedule and specification growth management skills and experience Ideally degree in Business (Or equivalent), APM or experience
Very high levels of SHE knowledge that will require Risk Assessment and Method Statements skills and functional knowledge. Ideally, NEBOSH trained
Excellent frontline Management skills, demonstrating communication, listening and processes skills. Ideally have Lean/six sigma or situational leadership training
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 team:

You will be leading a dynamic and hardworking team, managing their workload, and assessing their performance whilst liaising with various internal stakeholders and the MOD customer.

As the IWT lead you will lead, mentor, and manage an Integrated Work Team responsible for the constructive aspects of ship repair, including steel workers, welders, and fabricator teams. The goal is to ensure all production outputs meet project milestones on time, safely, with the right quality, and within budget. The Integrated Work Team will consist of several Team Leaders and maintenance operatives with trade disciplines. This role is critical in delivering Warship Support outputs that meet customer expectations.

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: 5th July 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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