Logistics Assistant

Salary: £18 – £24 per hour

Logistics & Planning Assistant

Plymouth

Aerospace

Permanent

Our client, a leading Aerospace and Defence company, are looking for a Planning and Logistics Assistant to join their team in Plymouth on a permanent basis. The company manufacture products for control, navigation and guidance for surface and air applications in the global Aerospace and Defence markets and are well respected within their industry.

Job Description

The Planning & Logistics Assistant will support the Manufacturing Coordinator in the successful execution of delivering product on-time, to meet customer demand. The successful candidate will report to the Manufacturing Coordinator and be responsible for managing the ERP planning parameters to mitigate risk and optimise inventory. Additional responsibilities will include assisting with the movement of goods, shipping and loading product into a motion simulator for calibration and test as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Scheduling the supply of materials to meet the master production schedule
• Working with supply chain to eliminate any shortfall of parts to the master production schedule
• Ensuring exception messages are understood, actioned or planning parameters are corrected
• Inventory Management to set targets
• Maintaining material standards in the ERP system
• Inventory reporting
• Handling NPI and configuration impacts on materials within the ERP system
• Review of manufacturing and resource capacity

Additional Responsibilities include

• Assist with the movement of material throughout the plant, from Goods In to manufacturing.
• Prepare material and issue to manufacturing.
• Assist with the receipt of finished Goods and locate in stores.
• Assist in the preparation and packing of finished goods for dispatch to the customer.
• Prepare shipping and export paperwork for dispatch of finished goods.
• Complete Courier requests, for shipments.
• Assist in Stock Cycle counting.
• Loading the products onto motion simulator and conducting calibration and test

Person Specification

• Understanding of ERP system principles and operations, ERP planning procedures and the integration of company functions provided by an ERP system
• Able to apply analysis to balance requirements of demand and supply
• Knowledge of the different classes of inventory (raw materials, WIP, finished goods, MRO, service parts, damaged, and obsolete)
• Understanding of the five functions of inventory: cycle inventory, safety inventory, anticipation inventory, transportation inventory, and hedge inventory
• The successful candidate should have ERP knowledge and experience of performing the above in a similar role within a manufacturing environment would be beneficial.
• You should be an effective communicator
• Have the ability to see tasks through to completion, good attention to detail and be proficient in the use of Microsoft packages.

Please note: candidates who are successful in securing an offer of employment will be subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and background checks. Project access restrictions may apply to some nationalities.

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