Operational Planning Manager

Job Title: Operational Planning Manager
Location: Wareham, Dorset + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £46,805 + Benefits
Role Type: Full Time / Fixed Term Contract (52 weeks)
Role ID: SF54968

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Operational Planning Manager at our two sites: Bovington and Lulworth.

Bovington and Lulworth are sites that support over 120 hours of maintenance and repair for our tracked vehicles, this function ensures that we deliver the capability the British Army need to contribute to front line-support.

The role
As an Operational Planning Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. In this exciting role, you will lead a team of five operational planners, ensuring the smooth operation of maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) of military tracked vehicles.

Day to day, you’ll be the senior escalation point that will understand and communicate risks, handle customer concerns, identify capability and capacity issues associated with plans, and liaise with all key stakeholders.

• Plan in all tasks, considering both resource and material availability to provide high level of enabled work to operations, and liking to the productivity of each work centre.
• Provide regular updates on the contracted hours position, forecast and actual position.
• Respond efficiently to new demands, creating production plans based on customer requirements.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including the customer, suppliers, and team members.

This is a full time, fixed-term contract (52 weeks) with a hybrid working arrangement (three days on-site, two days remote). You'll be based at MOD Bovington, Dorset with occasional travel to the Lulworth site (20-minute drive).

Essential experience of the Operational Planning Manager

• Experience in Operational Planning, ideally within a similar environment.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and guide a team.
• Proficiency in relevant planning and scheduling software (e.g., SAP, Microsoft Planner).
• Experience in stakeholder management and building strong relationships.
• Experienced in one or more of the following: project / planning /supply chain management

Qualifications for the Operational Planning Manager

• MCIPS or a Project Management Qualification (APMP and/or PRINCE2)

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 20/03/2024

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