Job Vacancy Production Planning Manager

Job title: Production Planning Manager

Location: Glasgow - Govan - Onsite only

Salary: Up to £72,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you'll be doing:

• Define, implement, lead, and manage a strategic and tactical detail planning process and requirements set that support the key project milestones, particularly the critical business ship delivery drumbeat objective, ensuring consistent application across the project, adopting a bold and innovative approach to Engineering, Manufacturing & build strategy issues and solutions, ensuring Customer, project and wider business buy in at all times
• Define and develop a Detail Planning model across all systems and levels (typically 3 through 5) necessary within the business to ensure seamless Engineering, Manufacturing and Support Function integration throughout the Project that supports a top down, rolling-wave integrated scheduling approach, structured around the business Quarterly Lookahead process
• Generate, maintain, and deploy all business and specific structures within the planning firmament ensuring seamless reporting across the business and systems, meeting and exceeding their quality, timeliness and measures. Develop and ensure the effectiveness of deployed processes and team enactment of them through regular process confirmation activities, training, and internal governance
• Maintain a focus on customer needs coupled with a focus on removing nonvalue added activities. Become trusted by and work closely with peer group and customers to ensure that the agreed planning process is implemented consistently across the company and in accordance with extant processes and templates and aligning and complementing the Manufacturing Engineering strategies. Always drive adherence to the plan
• Ensure the coherency and appropriateness of all data including change within the Planning and MRP systems and its timely availability to the business embracing and enforcing the Quarterly Lookahead (QLA) process for driving the drumbeat of the Project
• Collate weekly / monthly schedule data from the Manufacturing Team, analyse and interpret data, update and interrogate schedules and support Manufacturing CAMs through the CAM review process providing at-elbow support to the GM and management team

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Comprehensive detail planning / scheduling / MRP / project controls knowledge and experience demonstrated in a professional or management role within a business or major project.
• Excellent knowledge of ship build manufacture processes across the build cycle and delivery requirements of Engineering & Supply Chain
• Experience using Windchill (PDM), AVEVA ERM (MRP) and CMPIC (Cable Management) or equivalents
• Proven track record in leading successful teams

Desirable:

• Professional PM, Production Planning & Control or Manufacturing Qualification or years of practical experience gained through application

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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 Production Planning and Control team:

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the management team of our newly built Janet Harvey Hall (JHH) shipbuilding facility, transforming the way we build ships and deliver our customer commitments. You will support and advise the JHH General Manager on all aspects of the delivery plan and planning processes, providing at-elbow support on budget, performance, and schedule achievement, maintaining a superordinate focus on the achievement of the required Drumbeat between ships exiting the facility at the required level of completeness. Reporting to the Head of Production Planning and Control you will act as an experienced contributor in managing the detail planning processes

You will lead a team of detail planners providing practitioner capability in the establishment and maintenance of detail planning systems to support large, high value projects being delivered through the Janet Harvey Hall, to provide a planning framework and information to support the project management and manufacturing community

Closing Date: 29 July 2025. Interviews will take place w/c 25 August 2025.