JOB SUMMARY

DE&S Deca is a specialist part of Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) tasked with supporting a vast range of Defence avionics, electronics and components to provide high-quality, cost-effective support to the UK Armed Forces. We have a rich heritage as the MOD’s in house repair, maintenance, overhaul and upgrade service provider by offering innovative solutions to guarantee best value for Defence. To find out more about DE&S Deca follow here.
We offer 25+ days’ holiday, flexible and hybrid working, enhanced parental leave schemes, shopping discounts, and an exceptional employer pension contribution of 28.97%, to help make work work for you.
This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance. Clearance must be obtained without any caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role you’ve been recruited for. If it isn’t obtained or is obtained but with caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role, any conditional offer made to you will be withdrawn. Obtaining SC security clearance can be a lengthy process, and we reserve the right to withdraw any conditional offer made if the necessary security clearance isn’t obtained within 12 months.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a General Engineering Workshop Team Leader, you will lead a multi disciplined team, motivating and encouraging the team in the
performance of its duties in order that customer and production requirements are achieved on time, within specified cost, to the correct quality and safety standards taking into account protocols referenced by all ASI (Approved Source Information).
This role requires 100% site attendance.

What you’ll be doing

• Comply and enforce all relevant policy and legislation.
• Provide specialist advice and technical supervisory responsibilities, that includes: coordinating and assigning work activities, holding responsibility for output quality, and providing performance feedback.
• Hold self-certification responsibilities and perform test diagnostic and repair, maintenance, modification, calibration and manufacture using approved engineering documentation and techniques.
• Carry out unique tasks, including the creation of supporting engineering documentation.
• Work within a scheme of engineering governance provided by supervisors.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

What you’ll be doing

• Comply and enforce all relevant policy and legislation.
• Provide specialist advice and technical supervisory responsibilities, that includes: coordinating and assigning work activities, holding responsibility for output quality, and providing performance feedback.
• Hold self-certification responsibilities and perform test diagnostic and repair, maintenance, modification, calibration and manufacture using approved engineering documentation and techniques.
• Carry out unique tasks, including the creation of supporting engineering documentation.
• Work within a scheme of engineering governance provided by supervisors