Project Control & Planning Manager

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 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 an 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)