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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a 12 Month Fixed Term. We are looking for a proven leader who is passionate about managing the performance and development of our people. An engineering background or qualification is essential but a passion, focus, drive and vision to lead a team to deliver successfully is equally important.
Your role will be to:
- Support/Lead change programmes to meet a dynamic environment delivering equipment critical to the defence of our nation and its front line forces.
- Deliver high quality development and performance evaluations in order to maximise the potential of our people for today and for the future.
- Lead the development and harmonisation of processes that are fit for the rapid development of cutting edge technologies.
- Monitor, review and report progress against technical and schedule deadlines with support from a technical delivery leads and functional team leaders.
- With the help of our Technical Expert community, reinforce technical excellence through robust design activity.
- Support the recruitment process to meet our workload and skills needs.
- Motivate people/teams to pull together to deliver through challenging technical and time bound environments
What we're looking for from you:
- Ideally, degree qualified with a solid background in Engineering
- Significant evidence of leadership experience with teams and individuals
- Experience of defining, implementing and embedding strategic direction by providing a clarity of vision and mission.
- Ability to lead and drive collaboration across diverse teams to ensure on time, on cost, on quality delivery.
- Experience across a wide range of management tasks eg. recruitment, onboarding, performance, development etc.
What we offer
Salary: 62,000 depending on experience
- Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
- Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
