Manufacturing Planner

1 week ago

Hinckley, Leicestershire, United Kingdom Euro-Projects Recruitment Full time

Manufacturing Planner

£36-40,000 + 8% pension + bonus

Hinckley. Permanent. Monday-Friday Daytime pm.


Production Planner in a manufacturing business that has invested in new equipment and has a growing order book with customers worldwide.

This is a newly created Manufacturing Planner role which strengthen the supply chain team in the successful manufacturing business.

  • Build the manufacturing plan from the customer sales forecast, creating 3 months visibility ahead, with increasing detail into the 4 week production plan, including manufacturingline specific plans for the week ahead and a daily production schedule.
  • Optimise the production plan to meet customer demand, considering capacity planning, labour and machine availability.
  • Work closely with buyers in the purchasing team to drive conversations and ensure that suppliers are onplan to deliver OTIF.
  • Work closely with the warehouse team to understand inventory availability and communicate a clear plan to the warehouse team to enable smooth delivery of inventory into manufacturing.
  • Ask for data from colleagues to ensure that inventory in scheduled, delivered to warehouse and delivered to manufacturing lineside to enable the production plan to be achieved.
  • Take responsibility for inventory and stock level accuracy, balancing bufferstock against over stocking and obsolescence.
  • Take a lead in problem solving and introducing goodpractice with colleagues such as buyers, warehouse, manufacturing, demand forecasting and others that relate into manufacturing supply chain.


This newly created role has been created at a time of growth and investment, so you will have opportunity to get involved with the introduction of new systems during the introduction of a new company wide ERP system.

£36-40,000 guideline salary plus pension contribution of 8%.The job is Monday to Friday pm. This is daytime working (there are no revolving shifts and no night working).

Experience Required

  • Experience of production scheduling or manufacturing planning.
  • The ability to have data driven conversations in a positive collaborative way with colleagues and sometimes with suppliers.
  • Experience of working in manufacturing supply chain, ideally with experience of both ERP driven and manually driven systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate problems and ask for data to prove inventory delivery plans will be met.
  • The ability to problem solve, contribute ideas and create new working processes.

What is it like to work there

  • Professional business with strong market share.
  • The supply chain operations team is a key part of this successful manufacturing business.
  • Great team spirit across the company.
  • In the role you will have the opportunity to join a growing business and bring your own ideas into reality as solutions to the positive challenges of a growing business.
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