Requirements
Requires manufacturing or production experience, including production planning, control, expediting, or recovery, and the ability to track components across multiple operations and resolve production constraints. A bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, or equivalent military experience, is required; aerospace experience and knowledge of Lean Manufacturing are advantageous.
Job Description
Our teams of passionate and agile engineers work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of technology and sustainability. At ALTEN, we empower talented engineers to innovate, solve complex challenges, and deliver impactful solutions that build tomorrow’s world—today.
Join us and start building tomorrow’s world today!
Job Description
ALTEN is seeking an experienced Production planner to support a high-profile aerospace manufacturing programme.
This position will focus on maintaining the flow of critical components through production, resolving operational constraints and driving recovery activities to protect customer delivery commitments. You will work directly with production, planning, quality and logistics teams to ensure priority parts continue progressing through every stage of the manufacturing process.
- Location: Gloucester
- On Site: Onsite
- Clearance: Clearable
- Experience Level: Mid level
- Take responsibility for a portfolio of high-priority components and production recovery activities, ensuring they progress from order release through to final shipment.
- Maintain clear visibility of critical parts throughout the complete manufacturing lifecycle, tracking progress across individual operations and support functions.
- Identify bottlenecks, unnecessary waiting periods and process delays, taking action to improve the movement of parts through production.
- Ensure every priority component has a clearly defined next step, accountable owner and achievable recovery action.
- Work closely with Production, Planning, Scheduling, Quality, Logistics and Shop Floor teams to resolve issues affecting manufacturing flow.
- Coordinate regular reviews of critical components, ensuring production priorities and recovery requirements are clearly communicated.
- Investigate and escalate manufacturing constraints including resource shortages, machine capacity, quality concerns and material availability.
- Follow the progress of recovery actions and challenge existing production priorities when necessary to safeguard key delivery dates.
- Provide clear visibility of risks, blockers and required actions to relevant engineering and manufacturing stakeholders.
- Support initiatives aimed at reducing manufacturing lead times, work-in-progress delays and production inefficiencies.
- Contribute to improved on-time delivery performance through proactive monitoring and rapid resolution of production issues.
- Promote a structured, data-driven approach to production recovery and continuous improvement.
Required Skills:
- Proven experience working within a manufacturing or production environment, ideally within aerospace or a highly regulated engineering sector.
- Strong experience in production control, manufacturing operations, production planning, expediting or recovery activities.
- Demonstrated ability to track critical parts through multiple manufacturing operations and ensure delivery milestones are achieved.
- Experience managing production recovery plans and driving actions to resolve delays.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production flow and shop-floor operations.
- Ability to identify and resolve production bottlenecks and operational constraints.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including Production, Scheduling, Quality, Logistics and Manufacturing.
- Ability to manage and escalate issues relating to material shortages, quality concerns, machine availability and resource constraints.
- Confident managing multiple critical priorities and ensuring actions have clear owners, deadlines and follow-up.
- Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing environment and engaging directly with shop-floor teams.
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.
- Previous experience within an aerospace, manufacturing, engineering or similarly complex production environment.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations and production processes.
- Experience with production planning, scheduling, expediting or manufacturing recovery activities.
- Proven ability to track critical components or work packages through multiple manufacturing stages.
- Strong understanding of production flow, bottleneck management and lead-time reduction.
- Experience identifying and resolving issues relating to materials, quality, machinery, capacity and resources.
- Comfortable working directly with shop floor teams, Production Managers, Schedulers, Quality and Logistics.
- Experience managing or contributing to recovery plans and delivery improvement activities.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge priorities and escalate risks when required.
- Good problem-solving skills and the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced production environment.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement principles would be advantageous.
- Strong communication, organisation and prioritisation skills.
Why join us?
We bring together entrepreneurial, tech-driven people to deliver innovative solutions for leading companies.
At ALTEN, you’ll work on exciting projects, supported by ongoing learning, mentoring, and clear career development tailored to your goals.
Join a passionate team and help build tomorrow, today.
In short you get:
- A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
- A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cycle & Tech Scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Life insurance & Pension Scheme
- Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings
- Flexible way of working (role dependent)
ALTEN is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and values the strength that comes from a global mix of backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of background or protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.
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About ALTEN
𝐀 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐓 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 ALTEN is committed to meeting the expectations of its stakeholders and anticipating their requirements in the fields of innovation, R&D, and technological information systems. Founded in 1988 and present in 30+ countries, the Group has established itself as the global leader in Engineering and IT Services. ALTEN operates with major players in the Aeronautics, Space, Defence, Naval & Security, Automotive, Rail & Mobility, Energy & Environment, Life Sciences – Health, Industrial Equipment & Electronics, Telecoms, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Retail & Services, Public Services & Government sectors. OUR VISION: BUILDING TOMORROW’S WORLD TODAY We are convinced that engineers are the architects who build tomorrow’s world today. As a global leader in Engineering and IT Services, we support businesses in their technological and sustainable transformation. We commit to making a positive impact over time and on people, pushing the boundaries of innovation, and always staying one step ahead. We are driven by one ambition: to think about the future in the present. A LEADING GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNER ALTEN is involved in all projects with a technological dimension for the Technical, Research & Development Divisions and IT Systems Divisions of major corporate, telecoms and service clients, requiring the involvement of high-level Consultant-Engineers. To achieve this, the Group has put in place a world-renowned technical organization of excellence. 🔹 12 Industries covered 🔹 21 Delivery Centers 🔹 6,500+ Clients FULL COVERAGE OF TECHNOLOGIES The Group covers a wide range of expertise in Engineering and IT Services in order to meet our clients’ needs. We bring together and coordinate at the transnational level, specialists and consultants, experts in their profession who support our clients in their issues of digital transformation, innovation, product development, supply chain, etc.
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