Production Planner

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Own high-priority components and recovery activities from order release through final shipment, tracking progress across the manufacturing lifecycle.
• Identify bottlenecks, waiting periods, and delays, and take action to improve production flow.
• Ensure every priority component has a clear next step, accountable owner, and achievable recovery action.
• Coordinate with production, planning, scheduling, quality, logistics, and shop-floor teams; review critical components and communicate priorities.
• Investigate and escalate resource shortages, machine capacity, quality concerns, and material availability constraints.
• Track recovery actions, challenge priorities when needed, and communicate risks, blockers, and required actions to stakeholders.
• Support reduced lead times, work-in-progress delays, and inefficiencies and improve on-time delivery through proactive monitoring.
• Promote structured, data-driven production recovery and continuous improvement.

Required experience and qualifications

• Proven manufacturing or production-environment experience; aerospace or highly regulated engineering experience is identified as ideal.
• Strong experience in production control, manufacturing operations, production planning, expediting, or recovery activities.
• Ability to track parts across multiple manufacturing operations, manage recovery plans, and achieve delivery milestones.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production flow, and shop-floor operations; ability to resolve bottlenecks and constraints.
• Experience coordinating with production, scheduling, quality, logistics, and manufacturing teams.
• Ability to manage and escalate material, quality, machine, and resource constraints; manage priorities, owners, deadlines, and follow-up.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.

Desirable experience

• Desirable experience includes aerospace, manufacturing, engineering, or similarly complex production environments.
• Additional desirable experience includes production planning, scheduling, expediting, recovery activities, and tracking components or work packages through manufacturing stages.

Work arrangement

• Onsite work in Gloucester.