Material Recovery Lead

Posting date:	11 April 2026
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	11 May 2026
Location:	Pentrebach, CF48 4LA
Company:	General Dynamics Lands Systems UK
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	568

Summary

Description

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Material Recovery Lead to join our established team. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £36,000 to £45,000 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally. Joining an established team based at our Merthyr ( South Wales ) facility, you will work across a range of stakeholders responsible for the planning and execution of the Material Harvesting & Uplift team activities for General Dynamics vehicles. Providing oversight, training, and hands on workflow of supporting activities delivering urgent material supply and managing teams responsible for vehicle uplift.If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:

• Responsible for the planning and execution of obtaining material, the uplift of previously manufactured GDLSUK AJAX Fighting Vehicles. Responsible for all the steps required for the respective parts and vehicles to enter the next phase of activity.
• Organizing, development and execution of determining the appropriate strategies to efficiently complete work tasks via teams. Coordinate cross departmentally to ensure priorities are achieved for internal customers.
• Ensure accurate incident capture and migration into the DRACAS, MRP, MRB, or other toolsets for business wide analysis and long term corrective action.
• Support reviews and business update requirements as required.
• Provide daily reports to Line Manager toward progress or impediments. Prepare presentation material as required for management review and delivery – metrics, status reports, data analysis.
• Maintaining 100% focus on safety and the quality of the delivered article, ensure a working culture of continual improvement. Actively seek feedback from the wider stakeholder community and the customer.

To apply for this role, you will require the following:

• Experience with the commissioning of vehicle systems and test equipment. expertise on tracked armoured vehicles as a vehicle driver and commander
• Hold a H License, Tracked vehicles
• Proven experience in Six Sigma methodologies; certification preferred.
• Work experience with the inspection and testing of C4I Communication subsystems fitted on AJAX fleet, ability to conduct predictive testing and troubleshooting of components and systems to locate defects.
• Provide detailed inspection results, and material related information to key stakeholders.
• Experience with the harvesting of AJAX platform components, having performed functions in remote non plant locations independently.
• Past direct QA inspection experience.
• Working knowledge of the DRACAS process and associated tools.
• A proven track record of complex vehicle manufacturing and delivery programmes
• Experience of supply chain processes to meet the delivery demands of complex programmes
• Experience of military vehicle systems
• Ability to liaise with, and present information to, multi-disciplined and multi-national team members
• Excellent presentation, verbal and written skills
• Hold or be capable of holding security clearance up to the level of SECRET
• Excellent team working abilities
• Ability to communicate at senior levels

Our Company Benefits: We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:

• A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
• A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
• A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
• Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
• A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace

About General Dynamics UK General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 550 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability.We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team

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