Operational Excellence Professional

Job Description

Job Title: Operational Excellence Professional

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: From £35,802

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and contributing on elements of Operational Excellence initiatives and responsible business behaviours
• Responsible for the deployment of applicable improvement tools and techniques to team members and stakeholders ensuring they have a thorough understanding of the content, risks, and control measures and that they can demonstrate their competence to apply them
• Supporting the Operational Excellence Management team in addressing planned and unplanned tasks
• Providing guidance to less experienced colleagues
• Supporting with the functional development of Operational Excellence

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Working understanding of Operational Excellence/Continuous Improvement methodologies including Lean and Six Sigma
• Knowledge of Project Management principles
• Demonstrable experience of presentation skills and leading workshops
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people and teams motivating them to embrace change and create buy in
• Experience of understanding and breaking down complex issues and communicating to a variety of stakeholders

Desirable

• Background in STEM preferred or equivalent experience
• Ideally Lean Practitioner and /or Six Sigma Qualified or relevant industry-based experience

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave incentive and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Operational Excellence team:

As an Operational Excellence Professional, you will be working alongside an immensely complex and unique product, this is a fantastic opportunity to help solve engineering and manufacturing problems and to be part of making a real difference. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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: 29th November 2024

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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