Location: Barrow-in-Furness

Salary: Highly Competitive

Working hours: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday

Benefits: Car Allowance, 25 Days Holiday + BH, Company Pension, Private Healthcare, Company Sick Pay, Flex Benefits, non-contractual management incentive programme

Role overview:

As the Head of Assurance & Compliance, based at BAE Barrow, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring adherence to regulatory standards, internal policies, and industry best practices within the organisation. Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing and enhancing assurance frameworks, managing risk assessments, and driving compliance initiatives across various operational functions. Collaborating closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, you will lead efforts to mitigate risks, streamline processes, and uphold the highest standards of quality and integrity. Your strategic vision and proactive approach will be instrumental in safeguarding our client’s reputation and fostering a culture of compliance excellence within the dynamic environment of BAE Barrow.

What you’ll do:

• Provide technical and safety assurance leadership and support across the BAE account to enable the day-to-day delivery of exemplar operational technical and safety assurance and delivery of our client’s primary aim of zero harm.
• Collaborate with the Technical & Safety Assurance Director (TSaD) and BAE Account Director to conceptualise, construct, and deliver a fully compliant, progressive and integrative technical and safety assurance agenda. This includes:
• Implementing operating and assurance systems and establishing a preventative methodology drawing upon data-driven evidence, practical based experience and an effective mix of leading and lagging indicators.
• Developing and discharging the BAE account-based Quality Management plan to meet all BAE customer and contractual requirements and aligned to our clients ISO9001 delivery plan.
• Advising the Account Director on all technical and safety matters; evidencing compliance, providing objective technical analysis and safety performance/culture measurement; developing and delivering continuous improvement activities.
• Deliver parity across the physical and physiological health disciplines to deliver our clients 'whole person’ approach to safety and wellbeing. Coordinate the development of a vision and mission for a broad-based, holistic concept of safety for our clients’ operations at BAE, in collaboration with BAE and aligned to our clients organisational goals.
• As the BAE senior technical and safety professional, provide the customer interface for operational technical and safety matters and support the Senior Authorising Engineer (SAE) & HoSO in delivering an effective account wide technical and safety assurance regime.

Who you’ll be:

• First degree (Master’s degree desirable) or equivalent in a Technical or Safety related discipline (or transferrable people-based discipline) or similar related topic.
• Hold or working towards Chartered status (required) and membership of a relevant professional body e.g. CEng or CMIOSH, or equivalent.
• QMS Lead Auditor qualified (desirable).
• A comprehensive (expert) knowledge and understanding of all aspects of safety and technical risk management.
• Working knowledge (Practitioner) of quality management systems with a high degree of procedural, technical and HSE compliance.