Production Planner

Salary: £36,000 – £42,000 per year

Inspire Resourcing have an opportunity available for a Production Planner. This role is due to continued growth and requires someone to understand engineering process/manufacturing.

Production Planner

* Understand production capacity

* Agree orders lead-times with the sales team

* Produce daily/weekly / Monthly master production schedule for the Operations Team

* Monitor delivery to customer lead times and maximise production capacity in the most efficient way

* Liaise with Sales / Operations daily

Responsibilities

* Communicate with sales and production teams to produce production plans and manage adherence to these, advising senior management of any deviations

* Highlight production plan deviations to understand root causes and implement improvements or corrective actions

* Monitor and validate production routings and standard process times to calculate true production capacity

* Collate and input production data into MRP system ensuring data accuracy and integrity

* Positively challenge assumptions about production capability using data

* Working with forecasted demand anticipate and communicate possible future bottlenecks

* Understand machine reliability and off-line maintenance and its possible impact on future capacity

* Identify areas of agility in the plan to address any ‘specials’ or re-work requirements and communicate to the sales and customer teams

* Research and explore MRP full functionality, introducing modules/unused functions to the business which are appropriate for effective planning in the company environment

* Develop an understanding of production routes and processes across the product mix to increase ability to plan effectively

* Run production meetings to present information and data on plan adherence and any changes to the plan, ensuring that Production Manager / Supervisors fully understand the expectation

Essential Experience

* Previous experience in a Production planning role in a high mix, multi process, medium volume manufacturing/engineering environment

* Deep understanding and use of a range of MRP systems

* Data capture, interrogation and analysis in a complex production environment

* Experience of challenging and questioning experienced production team

* Making decisions using data

* Excellent IT skills and experience, especially Excel

Attributes

* Excellent written and oral communication, able to present to board and convey production plans to production teams

* Strength of character and confident in decision making

* Emotionally intelligent

* Analytical mindset able to spot trends in large volumes of data

* Able to embrace and encourage change

* Positive outlook

Salary 30-35K

Excellent Holidays and Pension Scheme

Hours: flexible 38 hours per week)

To apply please email your CV. If you do not receive a call within 7 days, please take it that you have not been successful with your application and we wish you all the best.