Title:  Operations Support Manager

Package:                     Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:                       SF17701

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an Operations Support Manager at our MoD Boscombe Down site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role
As an Operations Support Manager, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You’ll play an essential part in our mission, delivering innovative solutions within the QinetiQ Civil Flying Organisation (QCFO). This role offers a unique blend of strategic responsibility and hands-on coordination to support critical operations.

Day-to-day, you will work closely with internal teams and external agencies to ensure that all necessary support is efficiently planned and implemented.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Oversee the management of aircraft Ground-Based Training Systems, ensuring all software and hardware are up-to-date and fully functional
• Collaborate with the Survival Equipment (SE) Section to assess and manage current and future equipment needs. This includes oversight of logistical challenges for equipment procurement and identification
• Assist the Business Manager with essential budget administration tasks to support our financial goals
• Coordinate closely with airfield partners to ensure smooth operations and adherence to protocols
• Attend weekly Short Cast Meetings to represent QCFO management, providing insights and updates as directed by the Head of Flying or Head of Airworthiness

This role is 37 hours per week based at MoD Boscombe Down. Hybrid working patterns available.

Essential experience of the Operations Support Manager:

• Proven experience in people and asset management
• Background in an aviation, avionics, or aircraft environment

Essential qualifications for the Operations Support Manager:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those that help the defence community.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there has 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 will 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 will 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 and diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of 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.