Capacity Planner

Job Title: Capacity Planner

Location: Boscombe Down

Job Type: Contract

Capacity Planner required for a leading global defence company based in Boscombe Down. To work within assigned engineering capabilities, a Capacity Planner is responsible for maintaining the best Capability view of current engineering capacity and providing a feedback loop into programme plans.

Primary responsibilities are as follows:

. Identifying resource capacity, including capturing forecasts of early completion of task commitments.

. Capturing periods of staff non-availability (for Capability reasons) and ensuring EPM is updated accordingly;

. Identification of apparent gross anomalies in individuals forward load data (presented via EPM Project Web Access (PWA) and active resolution with programmes of most significant;

. Negotiation with Programmes to identify options to resolve resource allocation issues;

. Investigation and presentation of resourcing options (and associated impacts to existing commitments) for resolving urgent and unexpected tactical resource challenges.

. Download of supply planning data from EPM (regular HOSC downloads/dash-boards);

. Liaison with Planning identification and presentation of resource changes/evolution;

. Maintaining watch on workload on EPM and identifying and verifying unexpected changes;

. Support to Capabilities during Weekly Resource Allocation Sessions (RAS)

. Assisting with local resource planning during bidding

. Contributing to continuous improvement of Air Division Planning process.

Secondary responsibilities are as follows:

. Cataloguing of re-useable bid estimates and strategies;

. Support Create and maintain Capability information on corporate IT systems (including Share-point, SAP and EPM);

. Assisting with succession plan updates;

. Collating competence evidence and organising currency reviews;

. Reviewing timesheet bookings and identifying anomalies;

. Assistance with Recruitment and Onboarding of new starters;

For further information please contact Melissa.