Navy Command, Planner
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,590 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 August 2025 |
| Location: | G2 8EX |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 417307 |
Summary
Leadership
Demonstrate a personal commitment to the DIO Guiding Principles
Assist line managers and team members in delivering and supporting departmental goals.
Contribute to a positive, collaborative and proactive working environment.
Promote strong working relationships both within the team and with other teams across MPP (Major Programmes and Projects) and the MOD.
Ensure local compliance with mandatory requirements, e. g. H&S training.
Produce all outputs of the schedule and capacity planning management
Responsible for developing and maintaining the plan.
Responsibility for capacity planning services across the MPP programme
Apply expert knowledge of the future pipeline of work to inform decision making in MPP.
Engage with relevant base authorities to understand interdependencies across the site,
Produce and help with developing the programme schedule to capture the capacity planning outputs.
Support a capacity planning approach confirming MPP resource needs, liaising with Business Management Workforce Planning Lead on a regular basis.
Action ad-hoc capacity planning requests from MPP project teams.
Collate, aggregate and report against dependency issues and escalations.
Ongoing monitoring and assurance of scheduling and capacity planning across the programme
Implement Planning management standards.
Ensure quality review activities and associated time have been allocated realistically.
Define and manage time-recording processes; use systems/tools to capture actual progress data.
Provide a view of resource commitments that will impact the ability of the programme to deliver.
Provide a resource capacity tracking service across the MPP Programme of Work
Link into the MPP governance to ensure risks and issues on resource capacity are captured.
Provide assurance across all resource capacity recommendations made by TSPs.
Advise on the Programme approach to scheduling and capacity planning, including provision of a programme pipeline and resourced schedule
Promote an initiative-taking capacity management approach, involving programme/project resource reviews, ongoing capacity and capability reviews, evolving demands (CIDP) and change management.
Capture and maintain benchmark resource capacity requirements of the programmes.
Create and deliver a programme level resource plan.
Identify and report candidates for overarching projects or high-risk projects.
Responsible for programme resource schedule – profiled comparison of demand and supply for constrained resources throughout the planning period, highlighting periods of slack and under-capacity.
In consultation with resource owners, decide on the best source for the required resources, depending on the long-term requirement for a particular capability and its likely availability.
Ensure all product-based plans include activities, time and resource estimates for risk.
Assist with forecasting future resource needs, based on programme/project plans, close liaison with the relevant delivery leads and the Resource, Recruitment and Training Manager
Advise senior stakeholders on the best ways in which the schedule can prioritise resources against programmes and projects, particularly those flagged as high risk or with registered issues.
Demonstrate a personal commitment to the DIO Guiding Principles
Assist line managers and team members in delivering and supporting departmental goals.
Contribute to a positive, collaborative and proactive working environment.
Promote strong working relationships both within the team and with other teams across MPP (Major Programmes and Projects) and the MOD.
Ensure local compliance with mandatory requirements, e. g. H&S training.
Produce all outputs of the schedule and capacity planning management
Responsible for developing and maintaining the plan.
Responsibility for capacity planning services across the MPP programme
Apply expert knowledge of the future pipeline of work to inform decision making in MPP.
Engage with relevant base authorities to understand interdependencies across the site,
Produce and help with developing the programme schedule to capture the capacity planning outputs.
Support a capacity planning approach confirming MPP resource needs, liaising with Business Management Workforce Planning Lead on a regular basis.
Action ad-hoc capacity planning requests from MPP project teams.
Collate, aggregate and report against dependency issues and escalations.
Ongoing monitoring and assurance of scheduling and capacity planning across the programme
Implement Planning management standards.
Ensure quality review activities and associated time have been allocated realistically.
Define and manage time-recording processes; use systems/tools to capture actual progress data.
Provide a view of resource commitments that will impact the ability of the programme to deliver.
Provide a resource capacity tracking service across the MPP Programme of Work
Link into the MPP governance to ensure risks and issues on resource capacity are captured.
Provide assurance across all resource capacity recommendations made by TSPs.
Advise on the Programme approach to scheduling and capacity planning, including provision of a programme pipeline and resourced schedule
Promote an initiative-taking capacity management approach, involving programme/project resource reviews, ongoing capacity and capability reviews, evolving demands (CIDP) and change management.
Capture and maintain benchmark resource capacity requirements of the programmes.
Create and deliver a programme level resource plan.
Identify and report candidates for overarching projects or high-risk projects.
Responsible for programme resource schedule – profiled comparison of demand and supply for constrained resources throughout the planning period, highlighting periods of slack and under-capacity.
In consultation with resource owners, decide on the best source for the required resources, depending on the long-term requirement for a particular capability and its likely availability.
Ensure all product-based plans include activities, time and resource estimates for risk.
Assist with forecasting future resource needs, based on programme/project plans, close liaison with the relevant delivery leads and the Resource, Recruitment and Training Manager
Advise senior stakeholders on the best ways in which the schedule can prioritise resources against programmes and projects, particularly those flagged as high risk or with registered issues.