Project Control & Planning Manager; jc

Project Control & Planning Manager (153jc) – 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 can only 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 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, this could be for you.

You will form part of the Global Planning & Control (GPC) organisation delivering operational plans to disassembly and maintenance teams across the business.

• 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

• Acting as the main operational point of contact
• Managing live project communications
• Facilitating customer decision gates (e.g. key project milestones)
• Handling change requests, quotations and technical queries
• Managing quality issues and final reconciliation of harvest

• 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
• REME / RAF / RN aviation project managers
• 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
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills
• 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, we offer an outstanding starting salary with 25 days holiday, company pension, 3% employer and 5% employee contributions, possible bonus scheme depending on personal and company goals, as well as continuing personnel development within the company.