Operations and Continuous Improvement Leader - Aviation Engineering Centre

Job Title:   Operations & Continuous Improvement Leader – Aviation Engineering Centre
Location:   Boscombe Down
Package:   Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package 
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID:     SF16749
 
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an Operations & Continuous Improvement Leader at our 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 & Continuous Improvement Leader, you’ll be responsible for managing all operational aspects of the Aviation Engineering Centre (AEC) and drive positive change through the AEC by virtue of managing a programme of Continuous Improvement.

•    Generate the monthly AEC Performance Review pack and Compliance Review pack, supporting the Head of AEC in the presentation of the pack at the Air Business, Senior Management Reviews, ensuring any resulting actions are followed through.
•    Deliver a Programme of Continuous Improvement activity across the AEC, identifying key improvement areas from trends in KPIs, Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs), project LfE, and feedback from business performance reviews, team meetings and individuals.
•    As part of the AEC Leadership Team, lead the evolution and maintenance of the AEC 3-Year Strategic Plan, contributing to the AECs strategic future goals and ensuring Continuous Improvement activities and budgets are fully aligned.
•    Ensure effective, open and authentic regular communications across the AEC community to create an engaging and informative environment, ensuring the collation and presentation of a monthly AEC–Q-Talk pack.

The Operations & Continuous Improvement Leader role is full-time, 37 hours per week with flexible working hours on a hybrid basis.
 
Essential experience of the Operations & Continuous Improvement Leader

•    Demonstrable experience of having operated in a leadership role within an aviation development engineering environment.
•    Demonstrable experience as a change agent, having implemented and managed continuous improvement to process, ways of working, and ultimately culture, in the pursuit of improved, efficiency, on-time delivery and customer delight.
•    Detailed knowledge and experience of ‘lean’ methodologies and project lifecycle management.
•    A natural team player with the ability to infuse and motivate teams through change.
•    Computer literate and proficient with modern business software’s, ideally in the SAP business suite.
•    Culturally, we look for team members with a ‘can do’ attitude that supports a thriving environment delivering at pace with their colleagues, whilst ensuring stringent compliance to safety and regulatory requirements and meeting customer’s needs.

Qualifications for the Operations & Continuous Improvement Leader

•    Degree in a Business or Engineering subject, or evidence of experience and development to this level through vocational development.
•    Ideally registered with an appropriate professional body and active within Continuous Professional Development activities.

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)

Our Benefits
•    Adaptive and flexible working
•    Generous holiday allowance
•    Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
•    Matched contribution Pension Scheme, with Life Assurance
•    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 communities.
•    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’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.