About the job

Job summary

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) is a public facing organisation and one of only 2 dedicated display units in the Royal Air Force. Our mission is to maintain the priceless artefacts of our national heritage in an airworthy condition in order to commemorate those who have fallen in the service of this country. The BBMF also serves to promote the modern-day Air Force and to inspire future generations. The BBMF undertakes around 900 events throughout the summer. As a result, many of its personnel are deployed around the country on a daily basis during the display season, attending air shows and supporting the aircraft and aircrew in order to undertake core business. Outside the display season, the BBMF pivots to a Depth maintenance regime, at which time our aircraft are stripped down for preventative maintenance.  As the BBMF Tool Control System Operative, the incumbent will be employed as a permanent point of contact for all air safety critical procedures for the distribution and control of tools required to maintain our historic aircraft.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The Tool Control System Operative will be responsible to the BBMF Senior Engineer Officer and Engineering Support Register Manager to carry out the following tasks in accordance with Military Airworthiness Authority (MAA) policy:

• Responsible for the daily operation of the BBMF Tool Stores, including the distribution and control of tools and equipment as well as their maintenance.
• Providing oversight and maintenance for the respective equipment inventories.
• Enacting MAA and Health and Safety compliance measures.
• Carrying out regular checks of all tools and equipment to ensure that all items are serviceable and complete. This includes checking the appropriate documentation for validity prior to the release of lifting aids and Aircraft Support Equipment.
• Management of BBMF Test and Measurement Equipment.
• Engagement with Contracted Work Parties to facilitate the effective control of their tools.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria:

• Experienced within an engineering or logistic environment.
• Highly motivated, able to work independently, exercise judgement and demonstrate a practical approach to problem solving.
• Takes pride in providing a high-quality service, with a keen eye of detail and delivering at pace.
• Proficient in the use of the Microsoft 356 suite and applications such as MS Teams, SharePoint, Planner, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote.
• Ability to work as part of an effective team on ad-hoc tasks.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Highly organised, with good time management skills and the ability to organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity.

 Desirable criteria:

• Previous experience within the Defence Air Environment and knowledge of MAA engineering practices.
• Previous experience with the distribution and control of aircraft tools as well as their maintenance.

 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £23,310, Ministry of Defence contributes £6,293 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Applications will be sifted within 2 weeks of the vacancy closing date with interviews conducted in the weeks following.

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history, qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a Statement of Suitability (750 words max).

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours, however in case of a high number of applications, the selection at sift will be based on CV/Personal Statement.

• Managing a Quality
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours

• Managing a Quality
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into 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.

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Security

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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) (opens in a new window)
• 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

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.