Senior Resource Planner

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?
For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.
It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?
Senior Resource Planner
Salary - From £45,000 to £60,000 (Dependant on suitability and experience).
Location - Reading / Basingstoke Area
Closing date - 28th March 2024
As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
  
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle.
  
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training.
  
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
  
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution).
  
• Life Assurance.
  
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
  
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family.
  
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site.
  

Are you a self-starter who enjoys problem solving and implementing improvements? Are you a strategic thinker with experience of introducing new ways of working in a resource management environment?
As a Senior Resource/Workforce Planner within the Business Operations (Estate and Liabilities) team, you will help create, deliver, and then maintain workforce plans that protect and further improve delivery of services, by ensuring skilled resources are available, competent, and appropriately deployed both now and into the future.
Key Accountabilities:

• Developing and delivering new processes and ways of working that improve efficiency and provide high quality outputs.
  
• Helping create, deliver and maintain workforce plans to monitor performance, track resource risks and implement improvements.
  
• Coordinating and analysing functional resource deployment including forecasting, headcount and budget against targets, proactively driving resourcing decision making
  
• Monitoring performance of functional resources and delivery against strategic corporate targets by analysing relevant management information such as absence, retention, diversity, demographics, etc.
  
• Delivering people capability and governance data requirements for the function aligned to the company business rhythm.
  
• Working with Human Resources, Recruitment Business Partners, Senior leaders and others to create resource and finance resolutions at all levels and deal with escalated resourcing issues accordingly.
  
• Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the delivery of a complete resource and financial strategy, ensuring that plans reflect changes in supply and demand data.
  
• Assessing and planning future resource requirements based on known projections, impact of pipeline requirements, levels of attrition, utilisation, and efficiency drives.
  
• Maintaining the monthly drumbeat of available resource and financial data for the function and report in line with function and business rhythms.
  
• Analysing forecast to actual resource and financial data and provide reports at appropriate senior management meetings (and others where required).
  
• Working with HR to ensure that skills/competency/succession/talent gaps are identified, documented with plans to mitigate and fed into appropriate senior management meetings.
  
• Liaising with other service providers and demanders to provide the key interface on resource issues, escalating as appropriate.
  

Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

• HND or equivalent qualification in resource or operations management or equivalent experience in a comparable field.
  
• Knowledge of and experience in resource management.
  
• Previous experience in project/change management.
  
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills.
  
• Highly analytical with strategic thinking.
  
• Experience in resource planning tools and methodologies.
  

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role and be willing and able to work in designated areas.
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Please note that you must be a British National to apply for a role with us.
Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide us will be used to encourage and support you through the application process and will be held only for this purpose in accordance with GDPR.