Production Planning Delivery Lead | SA-Flinders Street
| Category: | Trades, Operations and Manufacturing |
| Position Type: | Permanent - Full Time |
| Attachments: | No File Attached |
| Application Close Date: | 05-Aug-2025 |
Job description
At BAE Systems Australia
- Be part of the largest and most complex industrial undertaking in Australia's history – SSN AUKUS
- Do interesting work that MATTERS
- GROW your career
- Be YOU
We work in a thriving sector – one that puts us at the forefront of exciting and meaningful work. Every day we push boundaries to produce some of the world's most innovative and ground breaking technology, including SSN AUKUS. We have been selected by the Australian Government to jointly build the nation's conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines. Every role in our SSN AUKUS team is helping to deliver essential sovereign capability for Australia.
Recognised for delivering projects of global and national significance that help keep Australia safe, it is our shared passion that shapes our culture, and our people that make it a great place to work.
About the OPPORTUNITY
We currently have an exciting opportunity for Production Planning Delivery Lead to join our SSN AUKUS business based at Adelaide CBD, SA.
We embrace flexible work arrangements at BAE Systems Australia, such as hybrid working and 9-day fortnight working arrangement.
Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will be responsible for managing team resourcing and performance, developing planning capabilities, and providing subject matter expertise for bids and tenders whilst maintaining standardisation and consistent implementation of best practices and standard procedures across the Business Unit or functional planning domain.
Key responsibilities include:
- Responsible for establishing the production planning function and resourcing the team in alignment with program requirements
- Provide strategic direction and leadership to team managers, ensuring consistent application of processes for budget and cost management across production planning
- Lead the transition of the UK Submarines Production Planning system of work to Australia, ensuring alignment across the program
- Manage interfaces with Project Planning and Leads to plan, allocate, and reconcile scope, budget, and materials required to execute the planned scope in alignment with the agreed Build Strategy, Project Plan, Master Production Schedule, and Production Detail Plans
- Manage the development of production budgets based on allocation of business norms and review/endorse overall project strategy on behalf of production planning input to build strategy documents ensuring best practices
- Define the standard best practices to be deployed for the creation and maintenance of Production Schedules/ Production Detail Plans including techniques, such as Gantt Charts, Logic, Resource Scheduling, Milestone Scheduling and Baseline Control
- Establish standard processes, deploy to Production Planning Managers teams and ensure all quality Hold and Test points are planned in accordance with the Project Quality Plan and ITP (Inspection Test Plan)
- Collaborate effectively to develop and maintain good relationships with internal stakeholders, external stakeholders and industry partners to maintain a positive culture
- Demonstrate visual leadership and compliance with the Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Management System, mitigating risks and improving overall SHE performance
- Support Lifecycle Management LCM process and manages the Production Planning Managers to provide relevant production Planning artefacts for design and phase reviews
About YOU
- Demonstrated experience in production, scheduling/production planning preferably in the heavy engineering industry
- Demonstrated understanding of Quality and Configuration control with an ability to make independent judgments and decision relation to the planners' circle of influence
- A thorough understanding of “Best Practice” planning and scheduling processes, systems and tools
- Well-developed self-management skill with an ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality to safeguard and protect sensitive information
- Ability to balance conflicting priorities to deliver against customer and business requirements with appropriate stakeholder management
- Engineering or Project Management qualification is desirable
We believe in hiring for potential, we know that some candidates hesitate if they don't tick all the boxes. If this role interests you, but you don't meet all the criteria, we still encourage you to apply.
About US
You will joining a workplace that truly cares about your wellbeing.
Our people are diverse and we value the variety of perspectives this brings, we know that a culture that is inclusive and fosters a sense of belonging is a place we can all make the most of our unique talents and be our best.
As Australia's largest defence company in a rapidly growing sector, you will be connected into a global team and encouraged to explore where your career might take you whether that is a traditional career path or squiggly one, there are infinite possibilities for you at BAE Systems Australia.
We welcome applicants from all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience; and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all positions.
We are proud to be recognised as an employer of choice for women by WORK180.
As a member of the Circle Back Initiative we commit to respond to every applicant.
We recognise the value through experiences, backgrounds and expertise each individual and partnering organisation brings to achieve success as a team.
To learn more about our competitive employee benefits, flexibility, other employment opportunities and what to expect from our recruitment process please visit: www.baesystemscareers.com.au
Clearances
As a Defence security clearance is required for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens and either possess or be eligible to obtain and maintain appropriate clearances.
