Master Scheduler – Production

Job Title: Master Scheduler

Location: Warton / Samlesbury- 3 days onsite per week, with flexibility for early morning meetings

Salary: £67,000

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

This is a unique opportunity to play an influencing role in transforming production scheduling across the Air Sector. Working at the centre of a newly established scheduling service, you’ll help shape innovative approaches to delivering one of the largest and most highly detailed multi-customer production portfolios in the business. By bringing together data, planning tools and cross-functional collaboration, you’ll support the successful delivery of production programmes across multiple aircraft platforms and customer contracts.

Collaborating with stakeholders across the global Air Sector, you’ll drive the adoption of new processes, integrated planning methodologies and enterprise-wide ways of working. This role offers significant exposure to strategic programmes, business transformation and operational leadership, alongside excellent opportunities for professional growth while contributing to the future delivery capability of BAE Systems.

Core duties:

• Leading and developing a team of schedulers while contributing directly to multi-faceted portfolio planning activities
• Consolidating project schedules into an integrated portfolio plan, aligning milestones, dependencies and critical paths
• Engaging with stakeholders to provide schedule insight, highlighting risks, opportunities and key delivery actions
• Coordinating scheduling standards, governance and best practices to ensure consistent, reliable planning data
• Balancing people leadership while dynamically scheduling delivery, driving continuous improvement and capability development across the function

Essential Skills:

• Extensive planning and scheduling experience gained within large-scale projects, programmes or multi-layered business environments
• Demonstrable experience overseeing and developing teams, while remaining engaged in scheduling delivery activities
• Expert knowledge of planning and scheduling methodologies, tools and best practices across highly detailed portfolios
• Ability to create, manage and optimise integrated schedules for medium to high-complexity programmes and projects
• Considerable stakeholder management skills, communicating planning insights and influencing strategies across senior leadership teams

The Air Sector Scheduling service Team:

Supporting one of the largest and most complex production portfolios in the Air Sector, this function brings together planning expertise, innovation and enterprise-wide collaboration to deliver integrated schedules across multiple programmes and customers. It plays a key role in driving transformation, enabling future growth and shaping new ways of delivering global production capability.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 18th June 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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