Job Description
Technical Planner - MRO
Days / Shifts
Bristol – on site role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technical Planner within the Defence Assembly & Test Maintenance Repair and Overhaul team. The role will be based in the Defence Aerospace Operations Facility in Bristol. As a Technical Planner, you will play a crucial role in an integrated operations team, planning and executing the delivery of critical customer requirements. The successful candidate will need to have a strong customer management focus, a proven track record in project delivery and the ability to operate in a complex environment.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.
We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
What we offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.
As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.
What you will be doing
- Conduct short- and medium-term load/capacity planning for the value stream ensuring live “in-year” plans are delivered.
- Create and maintain output plans which are aligned with supply chain commitments to schedule and prioritise work through the value stream.
- Ensure that any supply chain or capacity risks which have the potential to impact on delivery are identified, prioritised, and escalated where required.
- Create, review and report on, the performance of the area, in terms of Cost, Delivery and Headcount.
- Work closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure plans are achieved and the business operates smoothly. Be the voice of operations into other areas of the business (i.e., Programmes, procurement, and shipping) to ensure output and input plans are aligned and delivered on time.
Who we’re looking for:
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
- Strong planning and prioritisation skills with a high attention to detail and a self -directed approach to ensuring the execution of key business deliverables.
- You will have a reasonable level of knowledge and experience of SAP, Microsoft Office tools and a willingness to learn new tools & techniques
- A team player who can work in a fast-paced operations environment and is prepared to support others in achieving and owning a common goal.
- Networking across business groups and developing key relationships is critical to this role and therefore you will have strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to easily build rapport within all levels of the organisation.
- Highly organised with the ability to change pace and direction in response to emergent issues, remain calm under changing circumstances and deal positively with uncertainty and ambiguity.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
Job Category
Supply Chain Planning & Control