Job Title: Facility Planner

Location: Pendine, Wales

Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF17239

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Facility Planner at our Pendine site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Facility Planner, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary, providing scheduling and planning support across our bespoke Pendine facility utilised for Test, Trials, Training and Evaluation as a part of QinetiQ’s T3E contract. You’ll co-ordinate trials and activities across the site, utilising the sea danger area, long test track, small arms firing, shoreline and airspace. You’ll also have the opportunity to work in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Be responsible to the Operations Team Leader at Pendine for the co-ordination, scheduling and forward planning of all trials activities
• Maintain an accurate schedule on EpicFlow to support the trials delivery teams to plan projects & maintenance, and provide forecasts locally
• Improve utilisation of resources, managing peaks and troughs of Pendine trials
• Deliver timely and accurate project information, ensuring the general smooth running of the Pendine Trials schedule
• Share any scheduling clashes that arise with the Programme community in a timely manner so that correct priority calls can be made with business priorities in mind

This role is a full-time position based at our Pendine site 5 days a week, with compressed working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Facility Planner:

• Computer Literacy for Microsoft Applications Excel and Word

Highly desirable, but not essential criteria may include:

• Knowledge of project or business management.
• Planning or scheduling experience in a previous role.
• Proven high-level administration skills.

Qualifications for the Facility Planner:

• Mathematics & English GCSE’s.

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve for Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Security

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Application Guidance
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact your regional recruiting team in strictest confidence. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.