- Location
- Silverstone, England
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Mid
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
Project Planner
Application Deadline: 25 November 2026
Department: Strategic Projects
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Silverstone
Reporting To: Simon Newman
Description
Key Responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining detailed project timing plans, ensuring activities are logically sequenced and key milestones and gateways are clearly defined.
- Working collaboratively with Design, Manufacturing and Operations teams to establish realistic project delivery schedules.
- Monitoring project progress, identifying deviations from plan and communicating their impact and criticality to relevant stakeholders.
- Identifying project risks and opportunities, ensuring these are appropriately assessed, managed and reported.
- Developing resource and capacity planning tools to forecast demand across different business functions.
- Producing clear and accurate project status reports to provide visibility of project health and progress.
- Proactively managing project schedules, identifying opportunities to improve delivery and overall project performance.
- Attending and contributing to project meetings, ensuring actions and milestones remain on track.
- Supporting the development and continuous improvement of planning tools, reporting systems and business processes.
- Promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation and continuous improvement.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Experience within automotive, aerospace, motorsport, precision engineering or manufacturing, including supply chain environments.
- A good understanding of project management principles, ideally supported by a PRINCE2, APM PMQ or similar qualification, or equivalent practical experience.
- An understanding of manufacturing processes, such as metallic machining, additive manufacturing, composites and complex assemblies.
- Strong planning, organisational and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.
- The ability to identify potential risks, challenge existing processes and drive improvements.
- Confidence communicating with stakeholders at all levels of the business.
- The ability to remain calm, focused and decisive under pressure while working to challenging deadlines.
- A flexible, proactive and collaborative approach, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.