Job title: Business Resource Planner
Location: Glascoed – Wales. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Up to £55,869 commensurate on skills and experience
What You’ll Be Doing
- To provide a business resource planning framework, process and review structure
- Provide an Integrated Business Planning solution utilising project planning and functional data
- Maintain and develop appropriate planning tools in conjunction with the business
- Define, implement and manage a Strategic and Tactical Detail Planning process and requirements set that support the key Project milestones, ensuring consistent application across the Business adopting a bold and innovative strategy to address issues and solutions ensuring Project and wider business buy in at all times
- Generate, maintain and deploy all business and specific planning structures ensuring seamless reporting across the business and systems meeting and exceeding their quality, timeliness and measures
- Collate weekly / monthly schedule data from the Project teams and functions, analyse and interpret data, update and interrogate schedules and support schedule and resource owners
- Take ownership and ensure integrity coherency and timeliness of the data elements owned by Detail Planning within the Integrated Business Systems
Your Skills And Experiences
- Degree-level qualification (engineering discipline preferred) or comparable experience in the engineering/manufacturing sector, with demonstrable Project Management delivery or planning experience, ideally from a comparable industry (Defence)
- Formal training in Project Management (accredited by APM, PMI or PRINCE), with knowledge of scheduling and risk software tools (e.g. MS Project & Predict!), as well as experience of SAP
- Experience in using data visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau)
- Experience in building relationships and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Expert knowledge of Planning Techniques & processes
- Experience working as a Business Resource Planner or Project Planner
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 Project Management Office Team
Would you like to become part of the Project Management Office, based in Glascoed? Our Project Management Office is developing Business Resource Planning capability, building on existing processes and toolsets. Our aim is to respond quickly and efficiently to changing business needs, ensuring we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time. This is an exciting opportunity to build a Business Resource Planning framework and process, to then execute within the business. The role will require working closely with multi-functional resource owners across the business.
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 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: 28th August 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.
