A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a proven leader who is passionate about managing the performance and development of our people. An engineering background or qualification is essential but a passion, focus, drive and vision to lead a team to deliver successfully is equally important. This is a 12 Month Contract
Your role will be to:
* Support/Lead change programmes to meet a dynamic environment delivering equipment critical to the defence of our nation and its front line forces.
* Deliver high quality development and performance evaluations in order to maximise the potential of our people for today and for the future.
* Lead the development and harmonisation of processes that are fit for the rapid development of cutting edge technologies.
* Monitor, review and report progress against technical and schedule deadlines with support from a technical delivery leads and functional team leaders.
* With the help of our Technical Expert community, reinforce technical excellence through robust design activity.
* Support the recruitment process to meet our workload and skills needs.
* Motivate people/teams to pull together to deliver through challenging technical and time bound environments
What we're looking for from you:
* Ideally, degree qualified with a solid background in Engineering
* Significant evidence of leadership experience with teams and individuals
* Experience of defining, implementing and embedding strategic direction by providing a clarity of vision and mission.
* Ability to lead and drive collaboration across diverse teams to ensure on time, on cost, on quality delivery.
* Experience across a wide range of management tasks eg. recruitment, onboarding, performance, development etc.
What we offer:
* Salary: £62,000 depending on experience
* Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
* Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
* Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
* Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
* Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more