Job title: Manufacturing Team Leader
Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes – Onsite only
Salary: Up to £43,000 (dependent on skills and experience)
What you’ll be doing:
* Complete daily booking checks and validation to ensure team’s attendance is correctly captured to ensure pay is correct and the company invoices hours for payment
* Engage, listen and effectively communicate to teams of responsibility to optimise delivery performance
* Manage teams of responsibility will range in size due to the scale and complexity of the work but will be between 1 to 12 or 1 to 16 with surge
* Have day to day responsibility of teams’ performance management and development to include attendance, sickness, overtime approvals, training (where appropriate) and PDP’s (Personal Development Plans)
* Lead a continuously improving culture within teams of responsibility that will provide year on year benefit
* Be responsible for resource allocation ensuring team are SQEP (suitably qualified experience person) to conduct tasks
* Ensure compliance to production plans, production work orders and service orders to adhere to schedule agreements using business toolsets
* Ensure risk and method statements are in place and followed so work is completed to the high SHE (Safety Health & Environment) standards
Your skills and experiences:
* Have an awareness of how a team can impact upon the financial and customer relationships
* Utilize and drive the selected business process and tool sets to enable effective delivery performance
* Use technical and business expertise to establish solutions to production challenges that will enable reliable delivery performance
* Be responsible for team outputs ensuring safety, quality and cost performance is delivered to the highest standard
* Hold high levels of SHE (Safety Health Environment) knowledge that will require Risk Assessment and Method Statements skills and functional knowledge. Ideally, either IOSH or NEBOSH trained
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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 Cowes Manufacturing team:
With our international programmes and core support to UK MoD, you will work on, both new build manufacture and through life support of complex Land and Sea Radar systems. The projects you will be involved in will form the backbone of the UK Armed forces and civil air traffic management for decades to come
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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 27th August 2025.
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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