Production Planner

Overview

As Production Planner at Cambridge Aerospace, you will play a critical role in ensuring manufacturing activities are executed in line with programme priorities and delivery commitments. You will work in a fast growing, defence environment, taking ownership of production schedules, material readiness, capacity planning, and manufacturing delivery performance.

Key Responsibilities

Own and maintain production schedules across manufacturing and R&D, ensuring alignment to programme and delivery requirements. Develop and maintain capacity plans, identifying bottlenecks, resource constraints, and delivery risks before they impact programme milestones. Support new products, development builds, and engineering programmes.

Monitor manufacturing progress against plan, proactively escalating issues and driving recovery actions where required. Facilitate effective communication between Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, and Programme teams. Support the implementation and optimisation of MRP/ERP processes, maintaining high levels of data accuracy and integrity.

Track and communicate key production targets, providing clear reporting and recommendations to operational teams. Work closely with Engineering, Procurement, and Supply Chain teams to manage engineering changes and Bills of Materials, ensuring production requirements are met and that the required materials are available.

Requirements

Experience in a manufacturing environment across production planning or control, operations, scheduling, or supply chain planning. Experience in production scheduling, manufacturing workflows, and capacity planning principles. Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems for production requirements, material planning, and operational delivery.

Ability to interpret engineering and manufacturing data, including Bills of Materials and engineering changes.

Preferred Qualifications

/ Experience Experience within aerospace, defence, motorsport, automotive, or other high-precision manufacturing environments. Experience supporting NPI, development programmes, or engineering-led manufacturing operations. Knowledge of capacity modelling, production forecasting, and manufacturing performance analysis.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation and stock options Private Medical & Dental Cycle to work scheme Lunchtime catering on site About Us The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.

We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery. We have immense backing from the world's best venture funds. We're one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history.

And we're hiring the best people to prosecute the mission. If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us. Our Commitment to Inclusion We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

If you're excited about this role but don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.