Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom
Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Manufacturing Team Leader – Shift Pattern
Templecombe – Onsite
Working pattern available:
Thursday - Saturday (day & night shifts) 12 hours
Are you seeking a rewarding role that offers purpose and genuine job satisfaction? Are you passionate about empowering and leading teams? If so, we may just have the role for you.
What the role has to offer:
- The opportunity to work and deliver on a world-class Sonar system that plays a vital role in supporting the Royal Navy’s operational excellence.
- Develop and build your career with Thales, a team and company that is genuinely committed to your growth.
Our Opportunity
We are looking for a Team Leader to support the APRU Manager in driving delivery and ensuring that production/repair items are progressed efficiently.
Our key focus is to make sure we look after our people and always ensure we provide a consistent quality product to support all our UK & Export customers.
Some of the key responsibilities for this role are detailed below:
- Ensure workplace management is adhered to for areas covered.
- Support the APRU in resolution of problems to achieving Quality Cost Delivery (QCD) requirements and escalation where required
- Encourage teams to identify and implement improvements using lean methodology.
- Contribute to the generation of estimates for new build and repairs.
- Recruit, lead, develop, encourage and support the team.
- Point of contact for capturing process/paperwork issues and education of process with team.
- Responsible for managing the performance of the team, particularly initial discussions with transition to APRU manager as appropriate / necessary.
About You
We are looking for an organised individual with experience of successfully managing teams in a manufacturing environment. Someone with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and someone with the ability to work independently and lead a team effectively.
In addition to this:
- Initiative to define and implement improvement activities.
- Build relationships across industry and the wider business
- Attention to detail and ability to ensure all work is carried out accurately and conscientiously within quality and governance.
- An understanding of MRP/PDM system principles would be advantageous.
Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non-ITAR country may be considered. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.
To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.
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