Operations Planner

Location: Glasgow, 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.

**Operations Planner**:
**Glasgow**:
The Operations Planning team have an exciting opportunity for an Operations Planner to join the team As the Operation Planner you will be responsible for the creation of a robust production plan to support operations requirements. You will manage and maintain both the material and the production plan, identifying risk and developing proposals and solutions. Lead regular material/production programme review meetings.

**What the role has to offer**:

- Career progression opportunities for those who want to grow within the role and beyond.
- Work with exciting technology designed for global customers.
- Friendly and supportive team currently in growth mode.

**Day to day you will**:

- Load Customer demands on to the Master Production Schedule.
- Efficiently manage Planner workbench activities.
- Build relationships with all team members and stakeholders.
- Manage Inventory in line with company goals.
- Develop solutions to material issues and support manufacturing processes.
- Lead daily Short Interval Management meetings to maintain focus on MPS delivery.
- Report on material availability and works order updates e.g. Line of Balance, Shop Floor Control.
- Release works orders into the kitting process and sales orders into the shipping process.
- Support NPI requirements and support management and control of material through engineering change.

**About You**
- You will be customer focused and motivated to ensure on time delivery whilst adhering to company processes and policy.
- An excellent communicator both verbally and written and someone who approaches issues and tasks with a positive and solution driven mind-set.
- You will enjoy collaborating with your team and wider stakeholders to find resolutions that will help achieve challenging production targets. You should be able to communicate your proposed resolutions to all audiences.
- Planning experience within a manufacturing environment is key for this role and a qualification in support of this is desirable, though not essential.
- Oracle experience would be advantageous. Understanding of complex bills of material & routings would be beneficial.
- A high level of computer literacy is required including a good working knowledge of Excel being essential.

**What We Can Offer**
- We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market-leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

**_ Note: This will be a 4 day week - 37 hours - Mon-Thurs_**

**Flexibility**
- 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.

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

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At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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