Senior Production Planner – Spatial Capacity

Job Title: Senior Production Planner – Spatial Capacity

Location: Barrow-In-Furness – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Support the development and implementation of appropriate Production Planning & Control practices
• Engage with general managers and build delivery managers to define and control a longer term capacity plan, detailing key build stages through the CYC facility, utilising AutoCad
• Assist in the deployment of training & risk assessments associated with their Production Planning & Control sub-discipline
• Manage the day-to-day requirements of the capacity planning process within specific manufacturing facilities as required
• Produce weekly capacity outputs to support chairing weekly capacity meetings within the allocated CYC facility
• Collaborate with capacity planners from other facilities to identify opportunities in driving programme performance and minimising lost opportunities
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the programme build strategy and construction requirements by ensuring the capacity plan is enabled to be executed within the CYC facility

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Ability to understand build strategy
• Ability to use CAD (AutoCad) to produce detailed capacity actuals and planned forecast snapshots
• Ability to use P6 for plan analysis purposes
• Stakeholder management experience and ability to build on relationships & networks within a large team
• Ability to influence decision making with expertise in resolving complex issues

Desirable:

• Have the ability to learn new toolsets, support development of tools to support capacity planning
• Make judgements, recommendations and advise on analysis of factual information
• An ability to gather information, support development of solutions and of implementation approaches

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Planning, Production & Control team:

This opportunity is varied and interesting due to the closeness and proximity of the product and the continued interaction with all key stakeholders. It gives an insight into all functions and how they interact with one another. You will be responsible to run, drive and help deliver our company and business milestones. There are exciting opportunities to progress your career and develop into more senior roles within the business. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 27th September 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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