Services Area Manager

Job Title: Services Area Manager

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – Onsite (New Assembly Shop – NAS)

Salary: From £60,350 – depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for the Health, Safety and well-being of all employees and ensure they operate in accordance with Company Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Managing & deploying all service provisions within a large manufacturing facility, effectively organising the diverse service teams to ensure all build requirements can be energised with the requirements to support the demands of the build programme.
• Ensuring compliance for all plant & equipment utilised in the facility and the training requirements for all team members.
• Driving continuous improvement within the department, ensuring process adherence and effective planning for people, plant, equipment, process, training and ultimately performance within their Service Team and areas of responsibility. This includes the adoption, implementation and deployment of new technology, updating processes in line with changes in legislation, when required.
• Liaising with internal & external departments, driving the delivery & maintenance of all lifting gear / scaffolding / hot work plant & equipment & extraction, cherry pickers & scissor lift requirements, to support the daily demands of the facility.

Your skills and experiences:

• Supervisory Management Qualification and /or Management Experience.
• Services / Governance background.
• Understanding of current legislations and regulations.
• Experience in training team members & updating & maintaining training records to support safe working practice.
• Experienced in working in a busy production environment, an understanding of facility service demands including: – electrical, mechanical, hot-work, scaffolding, confined space, bio-hazard cleaning, lift plans & lifting gear requirements, etc.
• Strong Leadership skills, good communication and relationship building skills.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Service Area Manager team:

You will be leading and managing work across a trade area management team, to ensure safe assembly, production, testing and ultimate delivery of the boat through the Facility, in line with the agreed timescale, quality standards and cost. You will undertake the contracted scope as agreed with the Boat Delivery Manager.

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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 4^th February 2025

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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