Master Scheduler – Production

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to play an influencing role in transforming production scheduling across the Air Sector at BAE Systems. You will be at the centre of a newly established scheduling service, helping to shape innovative approaches for delivering one of the business's largest and most highly detailed multi-customer production portfolios.

By bringing together data, planning tools, and cross-functional collaboration, you will support the successful delivery of production programmes across multiple aircraft platforms and customer contracts. You will collaborate with stakeholders across the global Air Sector to 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 and contribution to BAE Systems' future delivery capability.

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 and Experience

• 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.

About 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?

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.

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.

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.

Important Information Regarding Security and Export Control

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.