Electrical Manager

Job Title: Electrical Manager

Location: Scotstoun, Glasgow

Salary: Circa £60,000 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Accountability and responsibility for SHE within a manufacturing area and be responsible for SHE related activities within associated areas
• Leading, managing and controlling work across a multi-skilled team, to ensure safe assembly, production, testing and delivery of the product in line with the agreed timescale, quality standards and cost
• Promoting a continuous improvement approach to quality, driving out waste and improving performance, incorporating lessons learned, best practice techniques and knowledge sharing
• Supporting the development of your team’s capability to ensure the right skills, knowledge and behaviours are harnessed and that people are empowered and supported to continuously improve the processes and ways of working
• Ensuring learning, knowledge and experience is shared across the build stages to promote a ‘process based’, integrated multi-skilled team approach and enable a more effective and efficient operation
• Ensuring compliance with appropriate governance processes and standards

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Time served in an electrical bias and experience within comparable industries
• Proven experience of managing teams
• Excellent communicator with ability to explain complex and diverse programme challenges effectively at all levels
• Ability to enhance business performance through continuous improvement

Desirable:

• Knowledge of shipbuilding production processes in complex warship delivery
• Previously accountable for managing SHE in a manufacturing area
• Project management experience including cost, schedule and quality

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 Ship 2 HMS Cardiff team:

Join our team and play a key part in one of the UK’s major ship build programmes and reporting directly to the Production Manager, you’ll lead up to 3 Supervisors and collaborate closely with a diverse workforce. Working on Ship 2 HMS Cardiff your role will involve extensive stakeholder management and direct customer interactions, providing exposure to all functions within the business. You’ll work alongside other Managers, interfacing with both internal and external stakeholders. This role can offer you both job security and progression opportunities to allow you to further your career.

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: 24th April 2025 – Interviews for this position will take place week commencing 12th May.

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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