Cell Leader (Parachute Packing team) in Denham

A career in aerospace with a British engineering firm that is saving lives worldwide. When you work at Martin-Baker, you’re providing pilots with their last form of defence.

Martin-Baker is the world’s leading manufacturer of ejection seats, helping to protect aircrew in the world’s most advanced military aircraft. Our mission is simple - to save aircrew lives. Join us as Cell Leader, leading the Parachute Packing department within the Manufacturing function, based at our Denham site. This is a key management role, shaping and developing colleagues within the team to effectively deliver against operational targets, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, ensuring that team productivity is accomplished to the highest standards of airworthiness, quality and safety.

You’ll influence team members as a people manager, relating to their coaching, recruitment, engagement, development and performance management, developing team procedures, driving KPIs and metrics to monitor and track productivity levels, ensuring the team achieves organisational objectives and is engaged. The parachute packing part of the manufacturing process is important and a key feature of the ejection seat product, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the team that actually packs the parachute and drogue components.

The future of engineering and manufacturing is changing. To future-proof your career Martin-Baker will always keep investing in your development. That’s a long-term promise. Because we want to learn from you, so keeping your skills up to date is important to us, and important for our future.

Characteristics & Skills

• Seasoned people management experience, with proven abilities of coaching, recruiting, developing, engaging teams.
• Experience working within manufacturing environments and leading others to achieve business objectives.
• Experience and understanding of using continuous improvement methodologies.
• Interest and enthusiasm for measuring and driving team performance, metrics, KPIs, data and reports.
• Commitment to the highest standards.
• Know how to listen, communicate and engage effectively with others.
• Share and demonstrate the Martin-Baker Values.

At Martin-Baker you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside experts who will help you to obtain a wide understanding of an engineering business, and you’ll develop new skills and gain a strong industry experience.

Highly competitive 9% non-contributory pension scheme, 4x salary Life Assurance, Personalised training and development plan, 25-days annual leave plus bank holidays, Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave, Occupational Health team, Cycle to work scheme.

We believe in equal opportunity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is respected. We want you to be able to do your best work. All candidates will be treated equally and fairly, regardless of their background, or any characteristic protected by law. Candidates will be selected entirely on their skills and competencies and in alignment with each role’s specifications and/or requirements. All published adverts will be aligned with the Company’s Diversity and Inclusion commitment.