Description:
You will lead this - protecting the long‑term health of the business by enabling informed choices about what we accept, defer, sequence, or decline. Your work will reduce firefighting, elevate predictability, and strengthen our ability to deliver for clients
What you'll do: 1. Own the enterprise capacity picture:
- Build and maintain a holistic capacity view across manufacturing resources, skills availability, engineering maturity, QA gating, logistics, and site interfaces.
- Identify constraints early and translate them into clear delivery positions and options.
2. Enable better decisions:
- Provide confident, objective challenge when commercial, project, or manufacturing priorities collide.
- Articulate risk, trade‑offs, and consequences with clarity - and stand by tough calls when needed.
3. Integrate and elevate planning across the business:
- Move Explore from project‑by‑project planning to portfolio‑based decision making.
- Connect and align dispersed planning activities into one transparent, repeatable process.
- Create a single version of the truth for senior conversations.
4. Lead and influence:
- Guide and support planners, bringing structure and calm to high‑pressure situations.
- Collaborate deeply with manufacturing, engineering, project, commercial, and logistics teams.
- Communicate insightfully, objectively, and with credibility across all levels.
5. Champion systems and data:
- Own the planning and capacity utilisation of SAP (and any future tools).
- Ensure decisions are based on trusted data, assumptions, and insight — not system perfection.
Your operating environment:
- Up to 30 active factory projects at once, each unique
- High complexity, high ambiguity, and evolving information
- Tension between project demands and manufacturing reality
- An environment requiring resilience, sound judgement, and composure
About you: Background:
- Likely from manufacturing, engineering, or construction-led environments
- Experience leading capacity planning in complex, project-based production settings
- Exposure to offsite manufacturing or complex engineered systems is an advantage
Experience:
- Comfortable challenging commitments and influencing senior stakeholders
- Has operated under pressure and in constrained environments
- Makes balanced, pragmatic decisions - and stands by them
- Experienced in aligning bespoke project needs with manufacturing reality