Location: Loudwater
Salary: Excellent dependent on experience + excellent benefits
Hours: 37 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Production Planner to join an ambitious, highly regarded engineering business that has supplied defence electronics systems for over 30 years to the UK Ministry of Defence, to major prime contractors, as well as directly to international military and commercial customers. Excellent remuneration and benefits packages are available, as well as career development and the opportunity to be involved in some very exciting projects.
The Production Planner will be responsible for planning, monitoring and reviewing incoming order requirements, resources and production utilisation to ensure customer orders are delivered in line with customer requirements
A production Planner will be responsible for:
- Planning all production jobs ensuring there is sufficient material (including Safety Stock holding) and resources to meet the needs of the project
- Liaising with the relevant stakeholders to demonstrate adherence to schedule and cost (in line with WP management)
- Liaise with Production Supervisors regarding capacity and stock requirements to meet incoming orders
- Work with the Production Manager to plan and prepare production schedules for production
- Manage information to optimise requirements to meet schedule dates for customer orders continually monitoring information and managing material requirements
- Monitor safety stock and work with the procurement team to adjust levels where necessary.
- Create planning schedule and planning sheets to establish sequence and lead time of each sub assembly to meet delivery dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders
- Further Duties available upon request
Skills / Experience
- Educated to A level or equivalent
- Experience of working in a manufacturing environment essential
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Manufacturing/Production Planner
- Proven experience of supervising/leading team
- Forecasting and planning experience
- Excellent IT skills with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel
- Proven problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively identify problems, put forward solutions and see through to resolution
Personal Attributes
- Close attention to detail and a methodical approach
- Customer focused
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with an ability to handle multiple projects
- Able to work on own initiative and prioritise a busy workload, juggling priorities to meet deadliness
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to express ideas, share technical information and communicate at all levels
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good team player, with a proactive, collaborative approach and an ability to motivate others
- Be creative and think ‘outside of the box’
- Strong negotiation skills
You will need to be able and willing to gain security clearance to SC Level
Please note; Due to the occasional high amount of applications, it can be difficult to reply to everyone. If you haven’t been contacted within 1 working week, then you haven’t been successful on this occasion. However, thank you for your interest.
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