Project Control & Planning Manager

Project Control & Planning Manager (047jc) – St Athan - £Excellent Package If you’ve planned complex operations, coordinated multi-site activity, managed customer-facing delivery, or controlled high-value engineering projects you could be ideal for this. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS RECRUITMENT CONSULTANCY, WE ARE ONLY ABLE TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EX MILITARY. We’re recruiting a Project Control & Planning Manager to join Global Planning & Control (GPC) the central operational hub responsible for aircraft disassembly and maintenance planning across multiple global sites. This is a senior operational role sitting at the centre of delivery, commercial performance, customer engagement, and cross-functional coordination. If you’ve operated in structured, high-accountability environments and understand planning discipline, operational control, and stakeholder management then this could be for you The Role You will form part of the Global Planning & Control (GPC) organisation delivering operational plans to disassembly and maintenance teams across the business. You will: - Plan and control aircraft disassembly and maintenance activity - Track performance against milestones and KPIs - Act as the primary operational interface with customers - Coordinate across commercial, finance, logistics, technical and site teams - Drive continuous improvement and post-project learning This is not a passive planning role, but an operational command and control role with commercial accountability. What You’ll Be Responsible For Operational Planning & Control - Managing customer projects from contract handover to completion - Planning disassembly and maintenance activity across sites - Tracking milestones, KPIs, and budget performance - Ensuring tooling, equipment, and resources are aligned to workload - Capturing all chargeable activity for finance and commercial teams - Supporting engine disassembly, collaborations, remote disassembly and special projects Customer Interface - Acting as the main operational point of contact - Managing live project communications - Facilitating customer decision gates (e.g. key project milestones) - Handling change requests, quotations and technical queries - Managing quality issues and final reconciliation of harvest Governance & Continuous Improvement - Launching and controlling project lifecycle documentation - Chairing structured cadence meetings - Conducting post-project reviews and customer surveys - Capturing lessons learned and feeding CI initiatives - Supporting 3-month rolling site plans - Ensuring traceability and accurate project records Ideal Military Background This role would strongly suit: - Senior Officers or SNCOs with operational planning responsibility - REME / RAF / RN aviation project managers - Logistics Officers with lifecycle project accountability - Engineering Officers with cross-functional coordination experience - Operations Managers from complex, regulated environments - Personnel with experience in equipment disposal, asset recovery or structured project delivery If you’ve planned multi-phase operations, controlled resources, delivered against milestones, and engaged directly with senior stakeholders your experience is highly transferable. What You’ll Need - Strong project planning and execution capability - Budget and cost control awareness - Ability to analyse and communicate performance data - Excellent stakeholder communication skills - Leadership presence with a hands-on approach - Ability to operate at pace across multiple priorities - Professional, structured, “can-do” mindset Travel may be required to meet business needs. In return they are offing a outstanding starting salary with 25 days holiday, company pension, 3% employer and 5% employee, possible bonus scheme, depending on personal and company goals, as well as continuing personnel development within the company. For more information, please contact Jean-Claude Hedouin at Ex-Mil Recruitment Ltd on (phone number removed)