Senior Production Planning & Control Professional

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Production Planning & Control Professional

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. (Fulltime onsite)

Salary: Starting from £42,215 (DOE)

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the development and implementation of Production Planning and Control practices

• Promoting the sharing of specialist knowledge across the business and promoting continuous improvement

• Assisting in the deployment of training and risk assessments

• Managing and developing staff, including identifying development opportunities

• Building cross-functional relationships to achieve project requirements

• Identifying resource activities requirements and prioritising work affecting manufacture, fabrication or construction

Your skills and experience:

Essential:

• Extensive experience of Production Planning & control within a project environment

• Good understanding of the wider Production Planning & Control environment, including the market, customers and culture

• Excellent stakeholder management experience, including defining and managing KPI’s

• Proficient in use of SAP and Team Centre with an understanding of MRP Systems

Desirable:

• Hold or being filling to work towards a APICS CPIM qualification or APMQ

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Internal Manufacturing, Production, Planning & Control Team:

This role offers the opportunity to gain broad exposure across the business, working with a variety of disciplines, functions, customers, and contracts. You’ll support major programmes including Astute, Dreadnought and potentially SSNA, while benefiting from future growth into new facilities and clear opportunities to progress in the future. 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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing date: 19th March 2026.

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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