Production Planner - Submarines

Rolls-Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Production Planner for their Submarines division in Derby. This role offers the chance to work within a dynamic team, ensuring timely delivery through effective planning and management of production activities. You will play a crucial role in optimizing inventory and logistics while maintaining robust data in ERP systems. With a focus on collaboration and agility, this position provides a unique opportunity to grow your career in a supportive, inclusive environment. Join a company that values diverse perspectives and fosters professional development.

Benefits

Employee Support Assistance

Employee Discounts

Continuous Learning Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in production planning and control is essential.
• Ability to manage deliveries under challenging circumstances.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with the planning cycle to meet customer demands.
• Validate plans with Supply Chain Planners to ensure material delivery.

Skills

Production Planning

MRP Systems

ERP Systems

Delivery Management

Job description

Job Description

Production Planner - Submarines

Full Time

Derby

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is home to some of the world's finest minds. And nowhere are those minds more keenly tested than in our growing nuclear business. Our team is comprised of a broad range of experts in the fields of engineering, manufacturing, project management and procurement. This is your chance to join them.

We’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

You will be working as part of the Steam Generators Control Account Team (CAT) within a Delivery Business Unit (DBU). The Production Planner will be responsible for delivery of their defined portfolio acting as a single point of contact, driving on time delivery through effective planning whilst maintaining the ERP and supporting systems. Within your team you will identify, prioritise, mitigate and resolve delivery issues.

We offer excellent development, 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:

With this exciting opportunity your main responsibilities will include:

• Compliance with the planning cycle, to produce, communicate and track progression a credible plan to meet customer demands; including inventory, logistics and storage considerations.
• To validate proposed plans, working with Supply Chain Planners, to ensure delivery of raw materials to meet requirements, working with Production Leaders & Production Controllers to ensure production plans meet customer requirements, and to ensure production plans meet NPI requirements where appropriate.
• Ensure production activities are undertaken to ensure the ERP system is maintained with robust & credible data that creates suitable supply plans, taking actions to rectify in accuracies.
• Awareness of inventory & logistics implication across the value stream and optimise inventory, whilst minimising customer delivery risk/costs.
• To carry out and input in to required business and operational reviews to understand capability to deliver to demand requirements, to define and manage actions to mitigate risks and issues.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:

• Experience of production planning & control is essential
• Demonstrated ability to manage deliveries and make balanced business decisions under challenging circumstances.
• Working knowledge of, and experience with MRP and/or ERP systems.
• Has the ability to influence others.

We’re 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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at careers.rolls-royce.com

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Closing Date: 20.5.25

Job Category

Supply Chain Planning & Control

Posting Date

06 May 2025; 00:05

Posting End Date

20 May 2025