Job Title: Production Scheduler
Location: Glascoed, South Wales
Salary: £42,132
What you’ll be doing:
- Preparing production plans and schedules prioritising orders and deciding how the facility’s resources—buildings, machines, materials and people are optimised (accommodating Proof schedules)
- Managing vendor performance and on time material delivery from the suppliers including expediting and third party stocks including arranging stock counts in line with the business financial targets
- Raising of schedule agreements, ordering, reporting and expediting of intra site materials and customer furnished equipment
- Inventory management (vendor stock, disposal, surplus, quality inspection stock, blocked and stock value)
- Monitoring and management of MRP system and escalation of errors including exception messages and material requisitions
- Carrying out daily, weekly and monthly production reporting, along with ad hoc situation reports and identify production constraints)
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Scheduling experience in a production/manufacturing environment
- Experienced in the use of the Microsoft Office suite, SAP ERP (or similar) and general database software tools
- Ability to liaise with various stakeholders at all levels including Customer Representatives, Planning, Finance, Engineering, Quality and Production management
Desirable:
- Experience working in a defence/munitions environment
- Qualified in a supply chain or similar discipline
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Scheduling team:
Step into a dynamic role where you’ll collaborate with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, expanding your business exposure and accelerating your career growth. You’ll take charge of production workload planning, ensuring efficiency and precision to meet customer demands. Managing MRP via the SAP system, inventory, and supplier deliveries, you’ll play a pivotal role in keeping operations seamless. With a new production facility, exciting learning opportunities, this is your chance to make an impact in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 13th June 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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