Material Controller - 24 Month Fixed Term Contract
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Description
As the nation’s flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain.
It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris.
Since then, British Airways has gone on to deliver game-changing achievements. First we broke the record for the fastest transatlantic flight with Concorde. Then we became the very first airline to introduce fully lie-flat seats on board.
It was our exceptional engineering teams that brought these pioneering and original ideas to life.
This is your chance to join one of the most diverse and innovative departments at British Airways, at a time when we’re re-imagining the way we fly the skies.
Material Controller - 24 Month Fixed Term Contract or Secondment
You will be responsible for managing supplier performance, ensuring timely material availability, and optimising inventory movement to support operational and contractual demands. Your ability to build strong relationships with both internal teams and external suppliers will be crucial in driving efficiency, resolving supply chain challenges, and enhancing overall delivery performance.
This fast-paced and dynamic role requires a proactive mindset, strong analytical skills, and a passion for continuous improvement. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to make a tangible impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
What You’ll Do
It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris.
Since then, British Airways has gone on to deliver game-changing achievements. First we broke the record for the fastest transatlantic flight with Concorde. Then we became the very first airline to introduce fully lie-flat seats on board.
It was our exceptional engineering teams that brought these pioneering and original ideas to life.
This is your chance to join one of the most diverse and innovative departments at British Airways, at a time when we’re re-imagining the way we fly the skies.
Material Controller - 24 Month Fixed Term Contract or Secondment
You will be responsible for managing supplier performance, ensuring timely material availability, and optimising inventory movement to support operational and contractual demands. Your ability to build strong relationships with both internal teams and external suppliers will be crucial in driving efficiency, resolving supply chain challenges, and enhancing overall delivery performance.
This fast-paced and dynamic role requires a proactive mindset, strong analytical skills, and a passion for continuous improvement. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to make a tangible impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
What You’ll Do
- Actively manage and develop team members.
- Agree and measure challenging targets, achieving these through process improvement, working across team boundaries and within a self-learning culture.
- Ensuring compliance with Engineering Policy, Statutory Airworthiness requirements, Safety Standards, Company Standing Instructions and Health and Safety Legislation.
- Manage the repair and overhaul of material within internal workshops and subcontracted suppliers.
- Manage budgets ensuring total cost of ownership.
- Plan and manage the material requirements for Aircraft and Programmes modifications.
- Ensure all quotes, scrap and exchanges are actioned in the Service Centre teams as well as actioning of planned orders and purchase orders.
- Be the focal within the Commercial & Supply Chain organisation for the ownership & escalation of all critical/AOG material issues.
- Evaluate potential suppliers and take responsibility for subsequent sourcing decisions.
- Maintain the contractual arrangements that exist with suppliers, seeking opportunities to reduce complexity, reduce costs and improve services for your category.
- Ensure the value negotiated in any contract is maintained through its life by continual assessment of current available data, making changes as required through
What You’ll Bring To British Airways
As an airline, we never want to stand still. The same goes for our people!
We’re committed to upskilling our engineers and providing professional development training so you can progress in your area of expertise. That way, you’ll attain the highest levels of professional achievement as we continue to invest in new technology, equipment, and aircraft.
Training modules are offered through self-study courses, or structured learning programmes, and delivered at our state-of-the-art Learning Academy at London Heathrow.
When you work in an engineering role at British Airways, you’ll be joining a high-performance culture. It’s a time-pressured environment too, but the challenges here are exciting and diverse, and you’ll be part of projects you won’t find anywhere else. That’s what keeps our exceptional colleagues inspired to do their best work. We also offer fantastic rewards, including great staff travel benefits.
Inclusion & Diversity
- Demonstrable ability to identify root cause issues and deliver effective solutions
- Coaching & interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrate effective presentation, written and oral communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Long term problem solving.
- IT and SAP literacy, and particularly MRP.
- Customer focus.
- Ability to manage spend within budget.
- Innovative and adaptable to the management of change.
- Formal business related qualification to HNC / HND or equivalent experience - Essential
As an airline, we never want to stand still. The same goes for our people!
We’re committed to upskilling our engineers and providing professional development training so you can progress in your area of expertise. That way, you’ll attain the highest levels of professional achievement as we continue to invest in new technology, equipment, and aircraft.
Training modules are offered through self-study courses, or structured learning programmes, and delivered at our state-of-the-art Learning Academy at London Heathrow.
When you work in an engineering role at British Airways, you’ll be joining a high-performance culture. It’s a time-pressured environment too, but the challenges here are exciting and diverse, and you’ll be part of projects you won’t find anywhere else. That’s what keeps our exceptional colleagues inspired to do their best work. We also offer fantastic rewards, including great staff travel benefits.
Inclusion & Diversity
At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work.
Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain
Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain