BAE Systems
Lead Detail Planner
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Job Title: Lead Detail Planner
Location: Glasgow, Scotstoun – Full time onsite
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Up to £52,397 (dependent on skills and experience)
Who We Are
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
Role Description
As a Lead Detail Planner, you will lead operational planning activities to optimise facilities, resources and materials, ensuring delivery against man-hour, cost and programme targets. You will oversee work package management, scheduling, work-in-progress control and Quarterly Lookahead planning, while driving efficient resource utilisation and mitigating delays. The role includes leading and developing Detail Planners, balancing team workloads, managing performance and absence processes, promoting best practice and ensuring a consistent planning approach across contracts and sites. You will also champion SHE compliance, quality standards and continuous improvement, acting on behalf of the line manager as required
Core Duties
- Responsible for the efficient Operations Planning which optimises facilities, resources and materials to achieve man hour and cost targets
- Manage and maintain work packages for Manufacture / Installation
- Manage planning aspects of the Quarterly Lookahead (QLA) process and, ensuring that all firm demand is met
- Monitor and control of all work in progress using standard reports
- Maximise use of Operation facilities / resources through effective scheduling
- Maintain an agile approach to problems / issues so that expensive cost and delays are minimised
- Verify that team outputs meet functional/business quality standards
- Provision of education/training of planning staff in the methods of Business System and Build Strategy
- Manage the Detail Planners absence and Performance Review (PDR) Processes
- Balance the workload of all planners in the team
- Represent line manager on certain occasions i.e. annual leave, delegated authority at meetings
- Ensure common approach to Detail Planning (contracts / sites) by identifying best practice
- Encourage the use of shared resource within Detail Planning to give Planners experience and relieve pressure points
- Ensure compliance with the SHE Management System, mitigating risks and improving overall SHE performance
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Essential Skills
- You’ll hold experience using Windchill (PDM), AVEVA ERM (MPR) and CMPIC (Cable Management), or equivalent systems
- You’ll have proven manufacturing production experience
- You’ll be able to rationalise large volumes of data and clearly articulate issues and their consequences
- You’ll have experience working within engineering and/or manufacturing industries
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.
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BAE Systems has a diverse portfolio of programmes and a broad spectrum of roles across multiple Functions. The business will offer you the opportunity to develop you career by supporting you in achieving further qualifications that complement our goals
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Why BAE Systems?
Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.
A Place Where Everyone Can Thrive
We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
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: 20th July 2026
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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