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Senior Operational Excellence Professional
2 days/week at home
A little flex time – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements depending on the role you apply for – explore your options with our recruiter during the application process.
Job Description
Job Title: Senior 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: Competitive
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 a Senior 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
Closing Date: 30th July 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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