Equipment Support Continuous Improvement Team - Support System Consultant Programme Lead

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Location

MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol, BS34 8JH

Summary

About the job

Do you want to join Defence and play your part in supporting our armed forces to operate effectively? Each year a third of the Defence budget is spent on Support. The organisation works alongside our military colleagues to provide in-service equipment and personnel support at home and abroad.

The organisation sits at the heart of providing support to the UK’s Armed Forces. This 650-strong organisation, consisting of both civilian and military personnel, exists to ensure that wherever Defence is operating, it can outpace, outwit and where necessary out-fight its adversaries. We have a broad remit spanning from planning to operational delivery. We are also driving a results-orientated transformation agenda to modernise Defence’s logistic and engineering support services.

We offer an inclusive, encouraging working environment. We value diversity and provide a wide range of opportunities to excel in your role and progress your career. Our active Diversity and Inclusion networks seek to support every member of staff through their career in a fair manner.

If you have the pride, passion and commitment to be a part of an exciting organisation at the forefront of supporting our country’s armed forces in protecting our people, territories, values and interests at home and abroad, apply online now!

This demanding role would require you to manage a programme of Integrated Business Management interventions across the Defence Equipment Support enterprise.

Your role will be to work within the Equipment Support Continuous Improvement Team (ESCIT) as a Managing Support System Consultant leading and coaching a team to deliver the most effective support arrangements for military equipment through-out a life-time that is often 20 to 30 years.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Job Description

You will lead a team of internal consultants to analyse the support requirements for a wide range of equipment from missiles to nuclear. Understand the necessary performance, design the optimal support system, and act as a business change agent with the existing team to allow their adoption of your conclusions.

Reporting to the Principle Support System Consultant (SSC) you will be a Managing SSC shaping and delivering a programme of work to build equipment support planning capabilities within a key Defence market sector. You would achieve this through building fruitful relationships with senior stakeholders across that market and beyond. You will also lead and coach a team of experienced Senior SSCs and developing Junior SSCs to deliver successful outcomes for our clients.

As a Managing SSC in a Chartered Management Institute accredited Premier Consulting Practice you will help shape the strategic direction of the Practice.

Responsibilities

To lead and coach your team of SSCs, of varying levels of experience, you will need to:

• Be qualified as a Certified Management Consultant and/or be a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting, or demonstrate a successful track record in strategic, consultancy led change.
• Ideally hold a Post Graduate Level 7 academic qualification in Through Life Engineering Services, Systems Engineering, Engineering Business Management or equivalent, alternatively have a proven track record of delivery across Through Life Equipment Support.
• Be a proven subject matter expert in the design & delivery of integrated optimised equipment support solutions for the Defence market sector;
• Have experience developing people, using strong interpersonal skills and judgement to effectively impart your expertise such that it can be applied by others;
• Be able to influence senior stakeholders across DE&S, Front Line Commands, industry and academia, dealing in complex, sometimes contentious change management issues;
• Have a high level of creative thinking & decision making to develop & implement ideas that impact beneficially on both the short & long-term future of your assigned market sector.
  

You will also clearly demonstrate wide & deep experience across the range of practical applications of successful changes for Business Operations Management in the Defence Equipment & Support sector.

You will need to demonstrate this in a leadership capacity by:

• Acting as leader & coach to people within your delivery programme;
• Influencing business thinking and the setting of the agenda across the discipline;
• External parties seeking your advice on issues impacting the sector.
  

In addition, you will hold a full driving licence to allow travel to remote sites. This could include, overnight stays and possibly weekly trips.

Due to the fact that you could be working on any project across Defence these posts are open to UK nationals only.

Licences

Driving Licence

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Leadership
  

Benefits

As a unique business, we offer in-house training as well as external development opportunities towards industry recognised qualifications.

We offer a flexible, inclusive work package which takes into consideration differing life circumstances and is crafted to support you through the lifetime of your employment and beyond.

In addition to a generous salary, market-leading pension and holiday entitlement of 25 days rising to 30 days, we regularly reward our staff with financial In Year Rewards and Thank You Vouchers to recognise high standards of work and outcomes.

Our On-site Facilities Include

• subsidised canteen
• gym
• coffee bars
• shops
• Parking
  

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

The post does not offer relocation expenses

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six month probation period.

Please Note

Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This vacancy is open to external candidates, and to existing civil servants on level transfer or promotion, on a permanent basis. Candidates found suitable for the post, but not selected, could be held in reserve and considered for future similar vacancies.

Candidates will be required to complete an online CV template to include job history, full details of education and qualifications and previous experiences and skills.

All applicants need to provide a Suitability Statement which should explain how your experience is relevant to the key responsibilities and activities for this role. Your statement should be no longer than 1,250 words. Please note that any statement which exceeds the word limit may result in the candidate being sifted out.

An initial sift will be conducted using your CV and Suitability Statement.

We Will Assess You Against These Behaviours At Interview

Interviews may take place virtually, or in person at MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol.

Seeing the Big Picture, Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Developing Self and Others and Leadership.

You will be asked to give a 5 minute presentation. Further information will be provided if you are invited to interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

Short listed candidates who have applied on promotion (C1 and below) will be invited to complete a series of online psychometric exercises, which will produce additional information to assist the selection panel at interview. If you are short listed for interview, you will be provided details of logins and passwords, which will enable you to access the exercises. The exercises can be accessed from any internet enabled computer. There is provision for reasonable adjustments to be made for candidates with a disability or health problem.

If you require any particular arrangements to be made in order for you to complete the exercises, you must contact the DBS Enquiry Centre on 0800 345 7772.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :Name : David BainEmail : david.bain401@mod.gov.ukTelephone : 07790921191Recruitment team :Email : DBSCivPers-ResourcingTeam3@mod.gov.uk

Further information

“Please refer to Candidate Information pack attached

Reference number

128016

Salary

53,500

Grade

Grade 7

B2

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOD - Strategic Command - Support Transformation (SpTx) is responsible for a portfolio of work that is improving how Support activity is delivered to Defence, both within the Defence Support organisation and across Front Line Commands.

Type of role

Analytical

Business Management and Improvement

Engineering

Logistics

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of posts

4