Job Title: Assistant Production Leader

Location: Rochester

Salary: £34,000 – £39.500 depending in skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• On-Time Delivery (OTD) of units to the Op Plan
• Cost Management of both Touch and Support labour
• Driving Quality into the Product
• Leading a small team
• Managing improvement activities
• Interfacing with all other functions at many different levels

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in a Manufacturing environment
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Communication, problem solving, organisation, prioritisation and IT skills
• Tactful and able to deal with sensitive information

Desirable:

• ONC/OND/BTEC Level 2 in an Engineering Discipline
• Previous Leadership experience
• Manufacturing technical knowledge

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 Operations team:

As an assistant production leader you will be reporting to the Operations Manager, the assistant production leader will assist in leading an IMT (Integrated Manufacturing Team) and be responsible for the manufacturing elements of a specific Project/Projects throughout the lifecycle (Development / Production / Support) ensuring items are manufactured and/or repaired to the agreed Ops plan to the required cost and quality.

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.

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.

Closing Date 20th January 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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