Project Control & Planning Manager; jc

Employer:

Ex-Mil Recruitment Ltd

Location:

St. Athan, Barry

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

14/03/2026

• St Athan - £Excellent Package If you’ve planned complex operations, coordinated multi-site activity, managed customer-facing delivery, or controlled high-value engineering projects you could be ideal for this.

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS RECRUITMENT CONSULTANCY, WE ARE ONLY ABLE TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EX MILITARY. We’re recruiting a Project Control & Planning Manager to join Global Planning & Control (GPC) the central operational hub responsible for aircraft disassembly and maintenance planning across multiple global sites.

This is a senior operational role sitting at the centre of delivery, commercial performance, customer engagement, and cross-functional coordination.

If you’ve operated in structured, high-accountability environments and understand planning discipline, operational control, and stakeholder management then this could be for you The Role You will form part of the Global Planning & Control (GPC) organisation delivering operational plans to disassembly and maintenance teams across the business.

You will:

• Plan and control aircraft disassembly and maintenance activity
• Track performance against milestones and KPIs
• Act as the primary operational interface with customers
• Coordinate across commercial, finance, logistics, technical and site teams
• Drive continuous improvement and post-project learning This is not a passive planning role, but an operational command and control role with commercial accountability.

• Managing customer projects from contract handover to completion
• Planning disassembly and maintenance activity across sites
• Tracking milestones, KPIs, and budget performance
• Ensuring tooling, equipment, and resources are aligned to workload
• Capturing all chargeable activity for finance and commercial teams
• Supporting engine disassembly, collaborations, remote disassembly and special projects Customer Interface
• Acting as the main operational point of contact
• Managing live project communications
• Handling change requests, quotations and technical queries
• Managing quality issues and final reconciliation of harvest Governance & Continuous Improvement
• Launching and controlling project lifecycle documentation
• Chairing structured cadence meetings
• Conducting post-project reviews and customer surveys
• Capturing lessons learned and feeding CI initiatives
• Supporting 3-month rolling site plans
• Ensuring traceability and accurate project records

• Senior Officers or SNCOs with operational planning responsibility
• Logistics Officers with lifecycle project accountability
• Engineering Officers with cross-functional coordination experience
• Operations Managers from complex, regulated environments
• Personnel with experience in equipment disposal, asset recovery or structured project delivery If you’ve planned multi-phase operations, controlled resources, delivered against milestones, and engaged directly with senior stakeholders your experience is highly transferable.

• Strong project planning and execution capability
• Budget and cost control awareness
• Ability to analyse and communicate performance data
• Leadership presence with a hands‑on approach
• Ability to operate at pace across multiple priorities
• Professional, structured, “can‑do” mindset Travel may be required to meet business needs.

In return they are offing a outstanding starting salary with 25 days holiday, company pension, 3% employer and 5% employee, possible bonus scheme, depending on personal and company goals, as well as continuing personnel development within the company.

For more information, please contact Jean-Claude Hedouin at Ex-Mil Recruitment Ltd on , or  or via the website  

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