Workshops Team Leader

Location: RAF Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire, OX18 3LX

Salary: £40,348.42 plus excellent benefits

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week

Ready to impact a better future?

At RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, Serco has been providing multi-activity and engineering support since 1997. Serco proudly support the RAF and MoD, supplying around 20 different services onsite, from engine and aircraft maintenance, to fuelling and ground control services. RAF Brize Norton is the largest operating base within the Royal Air Force, providing air transport and air-to-air refuelling to the RAF fleet, you will contribute enormously to the vital work carried out here. You’ll also be part of the wider team, with 5,800 service personnel, 1,200 contractors and 300 civil servants on site.

Reporting to Serco Brize Norton Engineering Operations Manager and the customer RAF Brize Norton the Workshops Team Leader is responsible for the effective delivery of these tasks:

• Machining
• Sheet Metal Work
• Heat Treatment tasks.
• Welding
• Fabrication
• Carpentry

Working Regime:
Mon-Fri 37 Hour week
08:00 hrs -17:00 Mon -Thu
Overtime as required.

What you’ll do as a Workshops Team Leader

• Ensure that all tasks are completed in a timely fashion and to health and safety, fire, emergency evacuation, quality, risk, and COSHH standards and procedures.
• Maintaining a clear, safe, tidy, effective and efficient working environment.
• Must adhere to:
  • Technical Work Procedures.
  • Health &Safety Instructions.
  • Serco Operating Procedures.
• Ensuring the tasks and supporting documentation is always complete, correct and “right first time - every time”.

Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) Engineering qualification
• Machining
• Sheet Metal Work
• Heat Treatment tasks
• Welding
• Fabrication
• Ability to effectively and safely complete technical maintenance and rectification tasks.
• Functional IT skills to use Electronic Technical Manuals and to update Maintenance Recording systems.
• Be an excellent team player with a “can-do safely” approach to work.
• Must have high standards of oral and written communication skills.

Roles Responsibilities related to the role:

• Deliver effective, efficient, “right first time every time” output to our customers.
• Ensuring good working practices are in place.
• Compliance with Aircraft Component fabrication requirements.
• Ensure compliance with relevant Quality Systems.
• Ensure appropriate cooperation with all audit activities.
• Must implement and promote a “Zero Harm” Open Reporting Safety Culture

Vetting and checks:

This role requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance, which involves verifying your identity, employment history, nationality, and criminal record to meet government security standards. In addition, you will need to obtain formal Security Clearance (such as CTC or SC), which includes more detailed background checks on employment, criminal record, and financial history to ensure suitability for working in secure environments. Please note that UK residency requirements may apply for certain levels of clearance. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire so we can identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.

Discover all you need to keep growing

We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. As a proud Disability Confident Leader and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard, disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

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