Operations Maintenance Manager

Job title:

Operations Maintenance  Manager

Location:

Warton – onsite

Salary:  £63,310+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing :

Lead  by example in promoting a zero-harm culture, ensuring full compliance with health, safety and environmental policies and all relevant legislative requirements.  Lead  incident investigations and continuously strengthen safe systems of work

Ensure continued airworthiness and operational readiness, maintaining robust processes that support product conformity, process capability and audit readiness. Operate in full compliance with Part 145-aligned practices and MAA / CAA regulations, including airfield inspections, defect reporting, NOTAM requirements and readiness for flight test and delivery operations

Manage  maintenance budgets effectively, optimising spares usage, reducing breakdown costs and  actively  supporting cost-reduction and efficiency improvement  initiatives

Provide  strong , visible  leadership  to a multi-skilled maintenance  workforce , developing capability,  confidence  and accountability across the team. Build an inclusive, high-performance culture focused on technical excellence, safety and continuous improvement.  Lead  internal and external audits, safety cases, risk assessments and permit-to-work systems

Plan and deliver reactive, planned and predictive maintenance, ensuring all activities are completed safely, efficiently and to schedule across  complex  plant and infrastructure, including subtractive CNC machining, pressure systems, chemical processing lines, robotics and automated manufacturing cells.

Monitor and  analyse   KPIs  to drive improvements in asset availability, MTBF/MTTR, backlog reduction and adherence to preventive maintenance schedules

Champion  digital maintenance and asset-management solutions, enhancing CMMS capability, condition monitoring and predictive analytics to support data-driven  decision  making, improve throughput, reduce downtime and extend asset life

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Outstanding communication and stakeholder  management  skills, with the ability to influence,  manage  conflict and allocate resources effectively.  Proven   leadership  experience within a maintenance, manufacturing or operational environment, delivering against demanding  KPIs , with  strong  financial acumen including budget  ownership  and cost  control

Strong  technical understanding of mechanical and electrical maintenance within  complex , high-hazard or high-availability production environments, enabling effective  decision
-making and operational  leadership

Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable performance improvements through the application of SQCDP, Lean  principles , TPM and continuous improvement methodologies, supported by data-driven maintenance and asset  management  approaches

Sound knowledge of health, safety and regulatory requirements, with a clear understanding of the behaviours and culture required to achieve and sustain compliance in safety-critical environments

Desirable:

Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Engineering or a related discipline, with additional  leadership  or  management  qualifications such as ILM, CMI or equivalent

Working knowledge of continuous improvement and reliability methodologies, including Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause  Analysis  (RCA)

Good understanding of relevant safety, statutory and regulatory frameworks, including LOLER, PUWER, COMAH, LOTO, UEC, FOD and RADHAZ, within a safety-critical or highly regulated environment

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 Operations Maintenance Team:

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Operations Maintenance  Manager  to  lead  the maintenance function within our MSDU and Military Aircraft production environments. This is a pivotal  leadership  role, accountable for ensuring production readiness,…