AWE is currently recruiting within the Materials and Analytical Science - Business Operations Group for a Programme Interface Team Leader.
This role offers an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to step up into a leadership role, a change of leadership role, or those looking to develop their people leadership skills.
Programme Interface Team Leader
Location: Reading
Package: £46,130 - £72,910 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)
Closing date: 30th June 2024
As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:
- Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
- Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
- A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
- Life Assurance
- Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
- A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site
- Potential opportunities to travel with work for conferences and collaboration
The MAS Business Operations Group is looking for a driven leader to undertake a fulfilling role as the Programme Interface Team Leader. Utilising your leadership skills and experience in coordinating technical experts and customer relationships, you will be an integral part of the organisation, ensuring focus on delivery and customer engagement.
The successful candidate will work closely with all our internal customers areas to ensure effective communication of service delivery, whilst enabling increased confidence in performance by developing and implementing capability health supporting metrics. They will work in the development of, and management of, Service Level Agreements, order book, reporting and metrics for the Materials and Analytical Science area. The role requires routine engagement with both internal Science and external Programme/Tech Centre stakeholders.
What will you be responsible for?
- Leading, coaching and developing a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet operational plans
- Assessing staff performance, measured against agreed personal objectives and accountabilities, and taking corrective action to improve performance where necessary via appropriate management interventions
- The technical quality of the work undertaken by the team and/or teams through appropriate internal (i.e. with Subject Matter Experts) and external reviews
- Ensuring that the work undertaken by the team is consistent with AWE strategy, policies, processes, procedures, and quality standards while minimising risk to delivery of the Integrated Technical Programme
- Knowledge capture in order to maintain, share, preserve and protect IP
- Undertaking other duties as reasonably required from time to time by line and task management
- Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player
- Scoping, leading and delivering multi-functional and focussed tasks
- The conversion of business data into required management information and high-level reporting
We would be interested in hearing from candidates who can demonstrate knowledge or experience in some of the following:
- Awareness of corporate strategies and business wide initiatives
- Proactively seek opportunities for continuous improvement and efficiencies that engage others and add value
- Ability to set, and support others in setting, strategic direction
- Excellent organisation
- Proven track record of delivering with success and overcoming complex challenges
- Understanding of how to present metrics and management information
- Experience in managing a diverse range of stakeholders
- Proficient data analysis and adaptable communication methods to reach and engage across the organisation
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Products
- Experience of successfully managing high performing and motivated teams
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and able to communicate information in a clear and concise manner
- Competence in the use of MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.
Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.