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Senior Production Planner

BAE Systems
South Ribble, England
Full time
June 22, 2025

Job title: Senior Production Planner

Location: Samlesbury (Full-time on site)

Salary: £47,683+

What you’ll be doing:

  • Implementing company Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) plans and activities as appropriate
  • Analysing of weekly cost and delivery data to inform performance to plan and variances
  • Creating and maintaining balanced schedules to meet customer requirements
  • Assessing demand and capacity to inform resource solutions
  • Supporting the inputs into Integrated Business Plan (IBP) for the full 5 year window
  • Undertaking scenario planning to support decision making on future plans
  • Supporting Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) inputs
  • Supporting engineering change and Make-vs-Buy opportunities
  • Supporting the application of Life Cycle Management principles
  • Communicating customer demands to the relevant Supply Chain and Procurement teams

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Strong understanding of production planning principles and to have MRP experience using an ERP system in a complex manufacturing environment with proven experience.
  • Experience in balancing demand and capacity planning. Experience of working on projects is required.
  • Be highly proficient in the use of IT, especially the MS Office suite (particularly proficient in the use of MS Excel)

Desirable:

  • Hold professional accreditation and qualification from a recognised Logistics/Supply Chain body, or be willing to work towards professional accreditation and qualification
  • Experience within a manufacturing or supply chain environment

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 Production Planning team:

As a Production Planner in the Manufacturing Service Delivery Unit (MSDU), you will be conducting capacity planning activities across a wide range of products in a details manufacturing environment. These tasks could range from analysing available capacity across a range of equipment within a given operational area, understanding and developing the assumptions used, factory scheduling, load smoothing, progress monitoring, scenario planning and S&OP involvement

This is a great opportunity for a Production Planner to work on complex, innovative and world leading projects such as Typhoon, Hawk, F-35 and Tempest. Join us and you will be working alongside other teams to deliver products that will be in service for 40+ years and be continually upgraded to maintain Customers Air Defence capabilities.

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: 8th July 2025

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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