Operations Performance Coordinator

QinetiQ

Job title: Operations Performance Coordinator 

Location: Farnborough/Boscombe

Role Purpose:

To assist with the delivery of transformational change within UK Defence Operations; managing the risks and issues to deliver the programme change benefits.

What i'll be doing:

• Development and maintenance of positive engagement with UK Defence and UK Intelligence Operations teams and key stakeholders. 
• Facilititing the embedding operational change improvement programmes
• Investigate best practise across Operations and work with teams to ensure a consistency in management and delivery approach.
• Embedding a culture in line with the QinetiQ values.
• Improving QinetiQ’s change management approach through collaboration across QinetiQ’s businesses & functions.
• Creation & maintenance of appropriate Change Management Plans, and reporting progress on all accountabilities to Head of Operations Performance   (or their delegate).

What i'll need to know:

• Skills to influence and align others towards Operations common purpose, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success.
• Able to demonstrate high personal standards of integrity – being able to withstand pressure from others, knowing “what is the right thing to do”, being ethically robust and resilient to criticism.
• Ability to effectively communicate and work collaboratively with people at all levels, both internal and external to QinetiQ, including customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.
• Strong diplomacy and negotiation skills with ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Results-focussed with ability to accept high levels of responsibility and accountability.
• Ability to develop and enact a structured approach to organisational change in support of QinetiQ’s vision, enrolling the impacted people to embrace the changes required to deliver the desired benefits. 
• Ability to identify, plan, agree and realise tangible and intangible benefits from the activities conducted within Operations.
• Stakeholder Management; being able to identify, plan and implement actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the Programme change outcomes 
• Ability to create an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal.
• Skill to identify and address differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties.
•  Strategy - Support strategic business change by developing approaches which enable benefit led management decisions. 
•  Knowledge of QinetiQ’s Operating Framework, Policies and Procedures.
• Knowledge of multiple site operations, its key staff and key facilities.

Experience & Qualifications

• Desirable experience of working within Projects
• Successfully assisting change management
• Delivering behavioural change required to support the benefits realisation.
• NEBOSH / IOSH Managing safely is desirable
• ITIL qualification desirable
• Experience of process/continuous improvement activities.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation, courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum.

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Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.