Description
Job Title: Resource Manager/Capacity Planner
Location: Boscombe Down
Job Type: Contract
Resource Manager/Capacity Planner required for a leading global defence company based in Boscombe Down. To work within assigned engineering capabilities, a Capacity Planner is responsible for maintaining the best Capability view of current engineering capacity and providing a feedback loop into programme plans.
Primary responsibilities are as follows:
- Identifying resource capacity, including capturing forecasts of early completion of task commitments.
- Capturing periods of staff non-availability (for Capability reasons) and ensuring EPM is updated accordingly;
- Identification of apparent gross anomalies in individuals forward load data (presented via EPM Project Web Access (PWA) and active resolution with programmes of most significant;
- Negotiation with Programmes to identify options to resolve resource allocation issues;
- Investigation and presentation of resourcing options (and associated impacts to existing commitments) for resolving urgent and unexpected tactical resource challenges.
- Download of supply planning data from EPM (regular HOSC downloads/dash-boards);
- Liaison with Planning identification and presentation of resource changes/evolution;
- Maintaining watch on workload on EPM and identifying and verifying unexpected changes;
- Support to Capabilities during Weekly Resource Allocation Sessions (RAS)
- Assisting with local resource planning during bidding
- Contributing to continuous improvement of Air Division Planning process.
Secondary responsibilities are as follows:
- Cataloguing of re-useable bid estimates and strategies;
- Support Create and maintain Capability information on corporate IT systems (including Share-point, SAP and EPM);
- Assisting with succession plan updates;
- Collating competence evidence and organising currency reviews;
- Reviewing timesheet bookings and identifying anomalies;
- Assistance with Recruitment and Onboarding of new starters;
For further information please contact Melissa.