Manufacturing Planner

Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) is a subsidiary of The Boeing Company and currently employs more than 1,400 people across the UK. We are responsible for delivering a number of exciting contracts to UK defence customers, including new capabilities such as the E-7 AEW&C, P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Autonomous Systems, C4ISR Services, support to the Chinook and Apache fleets, Logistic Information Services, and Training Services. We are also in a strong phase of growth.

As a BDUK employee, you will have access to flexible and virtual working arrangements, competitive benefits, employee incentive programmes, and study assistance, as well as potential opportunities for international travel. You will also have access to a wide range of resources to support your development throughout your career with us.

We are seeking a Maintenance / Manufacturing Planner to play a key role in the team responsible for delivering aircraft maintenance and modification activity to our UK defence customers.

While we work in agile and dynamic engineering environments, your wellbeing is important to us. We strive to maintain a healthy work-life balance and an ethical team culture with a strong emphasis on openness, collaboration, innovation, safety, and first-time quality.

The Maintenance / Manufacturing Planner is responsible for the creation and maintenance of electronic work packages for each maintenance input, repair, or modification using the Gold ESP MRO tool, in accordance with Part 145 requirements and BDUK/Boeing policies and processes.

This role supports BDUK’s delivery of maintenance and modification activity for the UK Apache and Chinook aircraft fleets, based at Middle Wallop and Gosport.

• →Authoring technical work instructions in line with approved processes and regulatory requirements, including writing, editing, and proofreading text.
• →Collating and verifying technical and engineering information to produce accurate and effective work instructions.
• →Interpreting multiple sources of approved engineering data from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Design Organisation, or customer-controlled maintenance data sources.
• →Producing standardised, logical, and easy-to-use production and manufacturing plans that support compliant maintenance activity and accurate maintenance recording.
• →Supporting the creation, receipt, and delivery of multiple complex electronic manufacturing plans and work packages.
• →Managing configuration control of plan sets, including engineering baseline establishment lists, manufacturing work instructions (Master Plans), associated aircraft-specific plans (A/C Work Orders), and Nonconformance Report (NCR) Work Orders (WOs).

• Experience in the scheduled maintenance, repair, and modification of aircraft or aircraft components.
• Ability to create detailed work instructions using strong technical writing skills, ensuring all requirements and work recording measures are met.
• Proven working knowledge of MAA Regulatory Articles (RA), MAA Regulatory Publications (MRP) Part 145, aviation Quality Assurance (QA), and Safety Management System (SMS) processes, and the application of these requirements.
• Experience of planning, sequencing, and controlling demanding workloads to time, cost, and quality requirements.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to understand and communicate technical work requirements clearly to support delivery against business targets.
• Suitably trained or authorised on the aircraft type or component type being worked on.
• Proven working knowledge of enterprise resource planning tools such as Gold ESP MRO.
• Ability to understand and interpret technical documents, technical drawings, and authorised technical publications (ATPs) in order to provide guidance and support to teams working on aircraft or generating work orders.
• Ability to work effectively across management levels, cross-functional teams, and customer interfaces.

This position does not offer relocation. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.