Project Control & Planning Manager

Project Control & Planning Manager (047jc) 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.

What You ll Be Responsible For

Operational Planning & Control

- 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

- Facilitating customer decision gates (e.g. key project milestones)

- 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

Ideal Military Background

This role would strongly suit:

- 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.

What You ll Need

- 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 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 (phone number removed)