Job Description

Job Title:

Site Scheduler

Location:

Washington

Salary:

53,928

What you'll be doing:

Working as a member of the Planning and Logistics team - being responsible for the ownership and maintenance of the site Master Production Schedule.

Being a member of a cross functional planning team: co-ordinating with customer site scheduling to update and align requirements, delivery plans and sharing best practice across the planning community.

Ensure demand is reviewed and production plans are accurately reflected within SAP. This includes reviewing demand requirements, BoM requirements, supplier set up in the system, order placement, production planning and capacity balancing.

Work collaboratively across the supply chain team to understand and predict any concerns and develop plans to mitigate these, including escalation of concerns to realising the plan and presenting these to senior management

Support capacity balancing and scenario planning to support business requirements

Deputising for the Site P&L Manager

Your skills and experience:

Essential:


Working knowledge of SAP

Extensive production and materials planning experience

Demonstrable experience of excellent stakeholder management

Works on own initiative with limited supervision and with responsibility for delivery, escalating concerns

Excellent communication skills


Desirable:


Likely to hold or working towards a professional accreditation (e.g. Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) or other equivalent professional body

Experienced in analysing information and implementing solutions with support, that best meet the requirements of the business

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.

The Production Control team:

Join our Production Control team at BAE Systems and play a key role in ensuring continuity of supply across the Defence Solutions Business. In this role, you will work collaboratively with all logistics team members, as well as a range of key external stakeholders across the business, to ensure that production is planned in line with business requirements across the supply chain.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.





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:

26th May 2025


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.