Shift Supervisor - Pyro Team

A career in aerospace with a British engineering firm that is saving lives worldwide. When you work at Martin-Baker, you’re providing pilots with their last form of defence.

Martin-Baker is the world’s leading manufacturer of ejection seats, helping to protect aircrew in the world’s most advanced military aircraft. Our mission is simple - to save aircrew lives.

Join us on this mission as a Pyro Shift Supervisor within the friendly and supportive Operations department, based in Chalgrove, Oxfordshire. This role will involve working a 4-on-4-off shift pattern from 07:00 – 16:30, which will include a shift allowance. Before the shift, during the training period you will be working the regular hours of 08:00 – 16:45 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 – 12:00 on Fridays.

As Pyro Shift Supervisor, your key accountability will involve implementing work packs / requirements, ensuring that colleagues have resources necessary to deliver their roles across pyrotechnic manufacturing, NDT (Non-Destructive Testing), stores / packing departments. You’ll proactively work through operational challenges, working cross-departmentally with site teams, ensuring that KPIs (key performance indicators) are achieved.

You’ll ensure that product quality and safety standards are maintained, delivering manufacturing procedures across various teams, relating to ‘on time’ delivery performance and product lead times.

Key aspects of the role will involve:

• Allocating work duties to team members, to support the production schedule.
• Ensuring a high performing safety culture across manufacturing teams, adhering to operational standards and practices.
• Support with monitoring performance and briefing teams with operational requirements.
• Support with maintaining and monitoring department KPIs.
• Working in partnership with quality assurance and production engineering colleagues with defects, helping to address and implement corrective actions.

The future of engineering and manufacturing is changing. To future-proof your career, Martin‑Baker will always keep investing in your development. That’s a long‑term promise. Because we want to learn from you, so keeping your skills up to date is important to us, and important for our future. We’re after people who are curious and enjoy solving problems.

We’re a company that saves lives. Join us.

• Production manufacturing experience gained from a similar environment, the automative sector, or engineering businesses that support defence/aerospace sectors.
• Broad working knowledge of current manufacturing concepts such as lean manufacturing, TQM, SPC, MRP, IIP and Value Stream Mapping.
• Previous experience managing a team is desirable.
• Thorough knowledge of Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• Can work independently and proactively to meet ongoing business needs.
• Committed to the highest standards.
• Share and demonstrate the Martin-Baker Values.

• Grade Pass in Mathematics/English GCSE (or equivalent)

At Martin-Baker you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside experts who will help you to obtain a wide understanding of an engineering business, and you’ll develop new skills and gain a strong industry experience.

• Highly competitive 9% non-contributory pension scheme.
• 4x salary Life Assurance (18+)
• Personalised training and development plan.
• The ability to purchase an additional week of annual leave.
• Nursery workplace benefits.
• Cycle to work scheme, including e-bikes.
• Subsidised canteen.

We believe in equal opportunity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is respected. We want you to be able to do your best work.

Martin-Baker is a signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, showing our support and commitment to our Armed Forces and their families, proudly supporting those who serve.

All candidates will be treated equally and fairly, regardless of their background, or any characteristic protected by law. Candidates will be selected entirely on their skills and competencies and in alignment with each role’s specifications and / or requirements. All published adverts will be aligned with the Company’s Diversity and Inclusion commitment.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). For more information and guidance please visit