Job Title: Operations Planning Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £56, - £66, plus Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead Operational Excellence That Shapes the Future of UK Defence
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Operations Planning Manager at our Rosyth site, near Dunfermline, Fife.
The role
As an Operations Planning Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role at the heart of one of the UK’s most exciting and strategically important shipbuilding programmes. This is an opportunity to influence how our teams plan, build and deliver complex engineering projects that directly support national security. You’ll shape and enhance planning performance across multiple teams, creating smooth operational flow and driving efficiencies that contribute to a safer world.
You’ll work closely with senior planners, project teams and production specialists, overseeing planning processes for the Type 31 Programme — one of the UK’s flagship naval initiatives. This role will grow your leadership capability, strengthen your operational planning expertise and place you at the centre of a dynamic, future‑focused engineering environment.
Day to day you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Leading and developing planning teams across live operational projects, ensuring accurate progress updates and effective performance management.
2. Managing demand planning (12‑week lookahead) and operational planning (4‑week lookahead) in line with Type 31 strategies.
3. Working with cross‑functional teams including production, demand planning, procurement and project controls.
4. Using data analytics and reporting tools to track KPIs and deliver meaningful insights to senior stakeholders.
5. Translating group planning policies into actionable strategies and best‑practice processes across the Rosyth site.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is a hybrid role with 3 days per week onsite at Rosyth.
Essential experience of the Operations Planning Manager:
6. Experience in a managerial role with direct reports.
7. Broad experience using MPS and MRP systems.
8. Strong background in inventory planning and management, with knowledge of end‑to‑end supply chain processes.
9. Understanding of factory, production, manufacturing and operational planning environments.
10. Experience in data extraction and analysis using digital tools.
Qualifications for the Operations Planning Manager:
11. Degree in a business or data‑related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
12. Experience using ERP systems.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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