About the role
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
Translate the Master Production Schedule into a feasible, sequenced, and controlled shop-floor execution plan for assigned value streams, products, and production lines.
Balance customer need dates, production priorities, capacity, labor, materials, tooling, fixtures, maintenance, quality constraints, and work-in-process to protect product safety, configuration integrity, on-time delivery, and efficient resource utilization.
Provide timely, fact-based visibility of schedule risk and coordinate recovery actions across operations, planning, procurement, quality, engineering, maintenance, logistics, and program teams.
1. Production Sequencing and MPS Execution
Sequence and release work orders in line with the approved MPS, customer need dates, program priorities, and the physical and staffing constraints of assigned production lines.
Maintain a rolling, time-phased shop-floor schedule that is feasible, balanced, visually communicated, and understood by Team Leaders and value-stream stakeholders.
Incorporate known downtime, holidays, preventive maintenance, line closures, calibration, qualification, inspection, tooling, fixture, packaging, staffing, and material constraints into shop floor schedule.
Coordinate changes in sequence or priority through established planning and change-control processes; communicate the operational and customer impact of changes.
2. Constraint, Capacity and Readiness Management
Confirm that scheduled work is supportable by availa…
