Planner

• Develop the Sales, inventory, and Operational planning requirements to meet customer demand dates whilst establishing level flow through operations executions by understanding capacity constraints and driving actions / solutions.
• Identify and drive strategies and processes within the team around material availability to satisfy manufacturing and customer requirements.
• Lead sales order review meetings to review planning and maintaining customer on time delivery.
• Develop a weekly Master Production Schedule, production planning reports and shipping requirements.
• Anticipate subcontracting needs where a subcontract supply base is in existence, to manage capacity constraints. Understands pricing agreements with a subcontractor supply base.
• Schedule customer orders in line with material availability and production line manned capacity and work to customer requests.
• Materials management to ensure materials and spares are planned accurately, directly placing purchase orders and call offs from suppliers against supplier agreements.
• Ensure raw materials are in place for production on time and resolves bottlenecks in supply to achieve on time delivery.
• Manage the incoming flow of raw materials, monitoring incoming deliveries, inventory issues, material shortages to minimise the impact on production.
• Work closely with production operations line leads, supervisors and management to develop and communicate production plans that ensure customer commitments are recognised.
• Deal with freight and duty invoices.
• Develop and maintain necessary records and documentation in compliance with ISO system requirements.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the capacity to adapt quickly to unforeseen work demands.
• Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter who can work on their own initiative with a can-do attitude.
• Awareness of customer deliverables and impact of poor quality.

• Experience of production planning in a high-volume manufacturing environment, preferably make to order, or previous manufacturing operations experience.
• Qualified to certificate/diploma/degree level in a business or technical discipline or an appropriate combination of qualifications and work experience.
• Experience of lean manufacturing philosophies and practices.
• Advanced user experience of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

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