Job Title: Production Planning Engineer
Location: Leicester, Leicestershire
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60623
At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Production Planning Engineer, at our Leicester site.
The role
As a Production Planning Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This role brings all the different parts of the project lifecycle together and it involves production planning for various projects of varying complexity within the Nuclear industry involving project work going on until at least 2032.
Day-to-day, you'll always work in a safe and appropriate manner and strive to set the highest personal standards of safety.
- Provide clear and visible tracking of work packages into the facility or about to be launched into work in progress.
- Attend as many as practical daily setting to work meetings to enable you to collate information.
- Attend weekly stakeholder review meetings and fully feedback to stakeholder where we are in the programme and understand future load and maintain a quotes and Project Scope Authorisation (PSA) tracker.
- Produce weekly, monthly sales/delivery forecast.
- Produce works documentation "Job Bags" etc and to liaise with stores on kitting priorities.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based in Leicester.
Essential experience of the Production Planning Engineer:
- Proven experience in production planning/production control.
- Must have familiarity of working with production lifecycles.
- Must have an understand regulatory and statutory requirements of production, manufacturing and commissioning activities.
Qualifications for the Production Planning Engineer:
- We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 29/11/2024
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