Master Planner

3 days ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Thales Full time

**Location**: Belfast, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

**Position**: Master Planner
- Missile Lines

**Location**: Belfast

Would you like to work for a world-renowned department that manufacture and supply technology impacting the lives of millions of people each day, making life better and keeping us safe? Our Integrated Air Systems Manufacturing division provide parts and materials for missile programmes. We are looking for a Master Planner to play a critical, high profile role in facilitating the delivery of increased workloads on these integral programmes.

**Our Opportunity**:
You will be responsible for managing the material planning activities, preparing the master production schedule, providing materials, resource and KPI analysis in support of manufacturing plans, and reporting project progress to the programme teams up to Director level. You will have full control of identifying opportunities, problems and bottlenecks and finding and implementing solutions. Although this is a hands on role, you will also manage up to 2 direct reports so previous experience in managing a small team, or the genuine desire to, is a pre-requisite.

**What you’ll do**:
Plan, validate and input schedules into company ERP system for programmes

Ensure daily governance and efficient use of ERP best practice

Provide materials, production capacity, and labour analysis

Provide comprehensive capacity planning analysis to resource level

Manage the supply chain planning activities

Assist in the effective planning of material requirements and manufacturing workflow

Assist other functions in adopting strategic inventory and material management techniques

Develop and provide information and management reports

Day to day management of up to 2 member of staff within the planning team

Have hands on experience in preparing the master production schedule

Have demonstrable experience in material planning

Be involved in or have hands on experience of man power, resource and capacity planning

Have experience or the right behaviours and desire to manage a team

Be able to report up to Director level and understand the levels of information required for differing stakeholders

Be APICS Certified or equivalent

Have used large ERP systems such e.g. SAP or Oracle

Able to obtain SC level security clearance

**What the role has to offer**:
Other than working on cutting edge technology projects, you report up to Programme Directors and Sales and Operations planning meaning you play key part in the sales and operations planning process. The opportunity exists to really make this role your own and drive it through. The role is multifaceted and has a broader scope and more variety than some similar roles can offer. The working environment is supportive, flexible and inclusive.

**Benefits**:
We work a 37 hour week across 4 days in this part of the business with the option to work from home 1 of those days. We also offer additional benefits such as a bonus and Private Medical.

Company Story

The future is full of excitement and change; each new change and technology will create situations no one has had to deal with before or even anticipated and it will happen at an even faster pace than today.

**Our 3 priorities throughout the crisis remain constant**:
To continue to protect all our employees’ health and financial wellbeing.

To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.

And, to ensure that Thales is best placed to recover quickly.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of

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