Hours: Full-time 37 hours | Monday-Thursday 08:30-16:30, Friday 08:30-16:00 | Permanent
Draken believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.
The Role
We are recruiting for a Director of Enterprise Improvement and Teesside Site Leader, a senior role responsible for driving business-wide operational improvement and leading our Teesside site. This position focuses on identifying and delivering cross-functional improvements that enhance performance, efficiency, compliance and capability, while embedding consistent, high-performing ways of working across the organisation. The successful candidate will also provide site leadership, ensuring safe, efficient and compliant day-to-day operations, and will work closely with senior stakeholders to lead change and drive strategic priorities across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Set and lead the enterprise-wide continuous improvement strategy.
- Drive standardised, compliant ways of working across the organisation.
- Identify, prioritise and deliver high-impact improvement initiatives and business cases.
- Foster a high-performance, continuous improvement culture.
- Lead and deliver key transformation projects and strategic initiatives.
- Provide overall leadership for the Teesside site, ensuring safe, efficient and compliant operations.
- Hold accountability for site governance, non-aviation compliance and budget management.
- Influence and align cross-functional teams to achieve site and business objectives.
- Build and maintain key stakeholder relationships, including customers, suppliers and Teesside Airport.
Experience
- Proven experience leading enterprise-wide operational improvement initiatives with measurable outcomes
- Strong track record managing complex, cross-functional transformation and change programmes
- Senior site leadership experience, with accountability for safety, compliance and operational performance
- Experience working within regulated environments and engaging with customers, regulators and external partners
- Demonstrated success in identifying opportunities, developing business cases and embedding sustainable improvements
Skills
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management, with the ability to influence across all levels
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical and decision-making capabilities
- Ability to design and implement standardised processes, governance and continuous improvement frameworks
- Effective communication skills with a focus on clarity, accountability and high performance
- Strategic thinking with the ability to align operational activity to business priorities
Qualifications
- Degree-level qualification (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline
- Continuous improvement or project management certification (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma, PRINCE2) – desirable
Our employee values
Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.
At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.
We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.
In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.