Operations Manager

Organisation: Defence Equipment & Support
Salary:£36,000 per annum (plus generous benefits)
Grade: Senior Technical Specialist I
Working Pattern: Full time, Part time, Job Share, Flexible Working
Contract Type: Permanent

At Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), we supply and maintain vital equipment and services for the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. Together, we deliver a vast range of essential defence programmes, and strive for what's next. Because it helps keep our military at the top of their game and our nation safe – for today, and tomorrow.

DE&S has recently been integrated into the National Armaments Director (NAD) Group. The NAD Group brings together key Ministry of Defence (MOD) organisations to unite expertise across science, technology, procurement, infrastructure, and support to provide integrated capabilities faster and more efficiently for our armed forces and our allies.

This is an exciting new opportunity to enable better ways of working and empower greater collaboration across Defence. For further information about the NAD Group, please visit:
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We offer 25+ days’ holiday, flexible and hybrid working, enhanced parental leave schemes, shopping discounts, and an exceptional employer pension contribution of 28.97%, to help make work work for you.

For security reasons this role is open to sole UK nationals only. A ‘sole UK national’ refers to an individual who holds citizenship solely in the UK, without dual citizenship or nationality from another country. We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship.

This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance . Clearance must be obtained without any caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role you’ve been recruited for. If it isn’t obtained, or is obtained but with caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role, any conditional offer made to you will be withdrawn.

Obtaining SC security clearance can be a lengthy process, and we reserve the right to withdraw any conditional offer made if the necessary security clearance isn’t obtained within 12 months.

Ready to turn data into better Defence outcomes? As a Data & Governance Operations Manager, you’ll play a key role in supporting the P-8 Poseidon and E-7 Wedgetail programmes, coordinating performance, governance, risk, issues and dependencies across a complex delivery environment.

You’ll bring together data and management information from across the enterprise and use it to provide clear insight into delivery performance, support effective decision-making and help improve aircraft availability and capability. You’ll monitor key performance indicators, track progress against plans and objectives, and ensure actions are effectively managed through to completion.

Working collaboratively with military, industry and stakeholders, you’ll build strong relationships across the programmes, particularly with local Operations Managers, providing the information and insight they need to support successful delivery outcomes. You’ll identify emerging risks, issues and opportunities for improvement, helping to drive greater coherence across plans, objectives and governance activities.

This is an excellent opportunity to work at the heart of two significant Defence aviation programmes, using data, governance and performance insight to help support effective delivery.

We champion flexible ways of working. Regular in-person attendance at RAF Lossiemouth is required (this is expected to be approximately 60% of your working week) to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance and business need. Initially, you may be expected…