Job Description

Planning & Control Manager – Production

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

To be the resource owner for P&C professionals in the relevant business area ensuring alignment to generic roles and development of skills in role to the required level.To be a P&C ambassador, coaching cross-functional teams on the importance of P&C processes and the adherence to them.Ensure the team uses RRSL planning processes to create and maintain robust & credible plans that meet customer requirement and are deployed to support delivery.To proactively identify any future risk to material supply and drive risk reduction / business continuity plan actions.Where performance diverges from the plan, identify and drive actions required to facilitate recovery. Ensure awareness within the value stream of delivery issues, mitigations and recovery plans.Ensure appropriate scheduling and resourcing of P&C standard diary and closure of related actions arising. Support IPPR Level 2 reviews as required.To oversee Commit Accept, Orderbook Reviews and Load & Capacity planning processes to ensure delivery plans are supported by realistic manufacturing performance and robust inbound supply plans.To ensure the ERP system reflects current commitments and drive ERP compliance with the team, to enable robust plans through high integrity data that meet customer requirement and are deployed to support delivery.To support appropriate CoP's and process councils, ensuring sharing of best practice and continuous improvement of standard processes.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Proven leadership qualities.Experience of managing, building and developing a team.Proven track record of managing and delivering operations/improvements, including dealing with change.Broad understanding of different roles / functions / processes (e.g. Manufacturing, Purchase, NPI, ME etc).Sound knowledge of production planning and control processes & principles.Knowledge of and working experience with MRP systems.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance.  Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place.  Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category

Supply Chain Planning & Control

Posting Date

16 Jul 2025; 00:07

Posting End Date

02 Aug 2025