Ship Services lead

Job Title: Ship Services Lead

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base

Salary: Circa £ 62,000 depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing and empowering teams by providing guidance, support, and mentorship to team members, fostering their professional growth
• Ensuring safety, implementing and maintaining high safety standards ensuring Ship Services Team Leaders are delivering safe care and protection in accordance to plans, schedules
• Managing resources by overseeing resource allocation and demand planning to support project delivery
• Driving operational excellence, leading and supervising teams to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards
• Championing continuous improvement by identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Fostering a positive work environment, promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, and high performance

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and manage teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
• Understanding of Maritime Operations, ship maintenance and familiarity with maritime laws, environmental regulations, and safety standards
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Effective problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a focus on finding creative and practical solutions
• Ability to think strategically and align team goals with the overall business objectives
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop team members, fostering their professional growth and skill enhancement

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 Services team:

Experience the impact of your work every day. The Ship Services team operates at the heart of our Naval Base, ensuring you see your achievements come to life on Royal Navy vessels.

This leadership role requires a highly motivated and experienced individual to manage a team responsible for delivering critical projects within the company. You will be accountable for the team’s performance, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

This role is varied meaning no 2 days will be the same and offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the organization by driving operational excellence and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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 February 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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