Senior Operations Planner

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| United Kingdom (On Site) | Full Time | 1 day ago

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Job Summary

The Senior Operations Planner will lead a team of Operations Planners, overseeing the creation, management, and review of work orders to ensure alignment with achievable plans. This role involves managing the team's workload portfolio, collaborating with other functions to ensure timely and quality information, and monitoring production progress. The Senior Operations Planner is accountable for module work orders, resolving NCRs, and ensuring sub-components are available for manufacturing lines. They will also communicate delivery date achievability to stakeholders and aid in emergent work coordination.

Must Have

Lead a team of Operations Planners and Junior Operations Planners
Raise, manage and review Work Orders (WOs) to align with achievable plans
Manage the portfolio of workload across the team
Collaborate with other functions for timely and quality information
Generate and manage accurate works orders through the factory
Accountable for module WOs, monitoring production and resolving NCRs
Lead regular 1-2-1s with team members for performance and development
Manage annual leave requests and timesheet approval
Collaborate with Programme Managers to meet part quantities for target events
Ensure work lists are based on accurate priorities and delivery dates
Responsible for ensuring sub-components are available for manufacturing
Feedback achievability of delivery dates to Programme and stakeholders
Work with Procurement to expedite delivery of required works orders
Aid with raising repair works orders during triage of Class 5 parts
Raise, coordinate and feedback achievability of emergent work
Role model Williams Values & Behaviours
Ensure compliance with health and safety obligations
Ensure high standards of behaviour and conduct
Carry out effective team member performance leadership
Adhere to brand rules and maintain department presentation
Comply with quality standards and identify continuous improvement
Understand cost cap requirements and identify optimisation opportunities
Proven experience in production control and scheduling

Good to Have

Background in engineering
Understanding of modern Composite and metallic production techniques
Experienced in Motorsport either professionally or as a hobby
Degree level qualification in Production management
Knowledge of CI principles

Job Description

Role Purpose (Job Profile):

To lead a team of Operations Planners and Junior Operations Planners to achieve the teams purpose. Raising, managing and reviewing WOs to ensure they align with an achievable plan. Manage the portfolio of workload across the team to ensure that all projects are covered. Working alongside other functions to ensure that information is available for Operations Planning at the right time and to the right quality.

Main Duties:

Generating and managing accurate works orders (from pre-templated routing created by the methods engineers) through the factory,
Supported by the Junior Operations and Operations Planners, being accountable of the modules WOs, ensuring they are monitored through production and NCR’s are resolved in a timely manner.
Lead regular 1-2-1 with the Junior Operations and Operations Planners to support performance and individual development. Daily mentoring to align to development needs.
Day to day management of annual leave requests and time sheet approval. Ensuring that the minimum coverage is achieved.
Collaborate with Programme Managers to ensure work orders are raised to meet part quantities for the relevant target events.
Attend faults meetings when required and assist with feedback.
Work closely with the Scheduling to ensure that work lists generated for the departments are based on accurate priorities and delivery dates.
Responsible for ensuring all sub-components require to execute top level BOM works orders are available for the manufacturing lines to execute work.
Feedback achievability of delivery dates to the Programme and clearly communicate with relevant stakeholders when plans are not achievable.
Work with the Procurement team to expedite delivery of required works orders (in line with the plan).
Aid with the raising of repair works orders during the triage of Class 5 parts.
Raise, coordinate and feedback the achievability all emergent work, to include Service, Class 5, Faults and Repair.

Key Accountabilities:

Fulfil all organisational expectations, including but not limited to the following:

Role model Williams Values & Behaviours, supporting and holding others accountable to do the same.
Always ensure compliance with health and safety obligations, supporting managers to uphold expected standards.
Ensure high standards of behaviour and conduct are upheld across the organisation, including the wellbeing of team members.
Carry out effective team member performance leadership, making sure suitable measures are agreed and taken to close any identified gaps in skills or knowledge.
Ensure you adhere to brand rules and maintain high standards of department presentation.
Comply with quality standards and identify and contribute ways to continuously improve department and personal performance.
Ensure understanding of cost cap requirements and identify opportunities to improve optimisation.

Core Competencies:

Attention to detail
Ability to manage multiple complex assembly portfolios
Excellent communication skills with the ability to coordinate with multiple different stakeholders
Ability to coach best practice with team members to support development and high performance.
Willing and flexible with a can-do attitude

Qualifications and Experience Level:

Proven experience in production control and scheduling.
Background in engineering is desired
Understanding of modern Composite and metallic production techniques is desired
Ideally experienced in Motorsport either professionally or as a hobby
Degree level qualification in Production management is preferrable
Knowledge of CI principles

Company Description

For almost 50 years, Williams Racing has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name.

Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. Its roll call of drivers is legendary, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team has made history before and is out to make it again with a long-term mission to evolve and return to the front of the grid.