Sustainable Operational Excellence Coach

Job Title: Sustainable Operational Excellence Coach

Location: Filton. Onsite

Grade: S5

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity. (INTERNAL ONLY, REMOVE FOR EXTERNAL)

What you’ll be doing

Lead and support coaching to enable the roll-out of Sustainable Operational Excellence within ICS across the Regional sites

Align with and embrace the training approach delivered at Barrow: “See One, Do One, Teach One"

Deploy Sustainable Operational Excellence one step at a time and coach leaders to create their own system

Facilitate coaching discussions focused on key behaviours and guiding principles

Project energy and belief in our approach and role-model a ‘can-do’ positive attitude

Embrace technology and flexibility to support remote and hybrid team coaching

Your skills and experiences

Essential:

Experience in coaching or mentoring, or a clear aspiration to grow into a coaching role

Skilled in presenting confidently and effectively to sizeable groups

Familiarity of concepts such as DSUMs (Daily Stand-Up Meetings), Process Configuration and Standard Diaries

Must be able to travel to Barrow for 3-phase training: three scheduled blocks of 12 weeks to be fulfilled

Desirable:

Foundational understanding of Operational Excellence or Project Management Principles and processes

Demonstrable leadership experience

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 ICS Operational Excellence team

Step into a pivotal moment with the Integrated Combat Systems Operational Excellence Team. We're building a dynamic new group dedicated to transforming performance across our southern sites through a strategic mentoring initiative. As part of this rollout, you'll lead and support coaching efforts from apprentices to senior leaders, embedding excellence at every level. This is more than a role, it’s a development journey, upon completion of our “See one, Do one, Teach one” training, you’ll be recognised as a BAE Systems Sustainable Operational Excellence Coach, equipped to lead and embed best practices across the business.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.