UK Planning

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments

We are currently looking for a UK Planning & Scheduling Manager to join our team in the Chippenham, United Kingdom, Wavin UK, an Orbia business If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

The UK Planning & Scheduling Manager is a role with direct responsibility for short and long-term factory planning and scheduling (replenishment, detail scheduling, material planning of RM and components, planning and executing subcontracting supply flows) in assigned production plants.

The job covers operational part of supply chain with full responsibility for delivering optimized product availability according to IBP assumptions. It includes responsibility for short-term supplies, production scheduling, raw material, components, and subcontracting planning. It requires driving together with local customer service alignment with customer expectations as well as local production on optimized cost. It also requires supporting the optimization of local factory supply chain to ensure balance between stock availability, cost and inventory.

You will report to the Plant Leader. The position will lead a team of 7 direct subordinates.

Your responsibilities:

• Support of weekly S&OE meeting for the assign production plants.
• Support in IBP process (capacity constraints, utilization, short term issues, force majeure).
• Coordination of material planners (BOM materials and subcontracting) and detailed schedulers for various supply scenarios execution.
• Production plan adjustment based on weekly review of monthly progress and order book (FC consumption) with detailed schedulers in all production facilities within territory.
• Support of slow mover’s stock management process (obsolete, blocked stock, MTO without allocation) for assign production plants.
• Assure proper control of SAP master data. Maintain material process creation according MDG guidelines.
• Execute plans of introduction of new products and phase-out of old products to assure the optimal availability and minimum obsolescence within the assign production plants.
• Urgently react to changes in demand or supply to minimize obsolescence and inventory while maximizing customer service.
• Propose and drive improvements in raw materials & components purchase (consignments, vendor stock etc.) as well as subcontracting.
• Continuous drive for optimizing working capital, costs, and service.
• Address all availability issues of Finish Goods within the team.
• Lead and implement projects for continuous improvement of factory planning performance.
• Assure H&S standards adherence.
• Other activities assigned by the Manager.
• Lead and develop team to build required competencies and continuously drive operational excellence.

Our requirements:

• Education requirement - minimum A levels; Degree educated in relevant business discipline (Logistics, MBA) is desirable
• 3 years’ experience in production and material planning in big scale production.
• Good analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize, manage and complete projects under a deadline.
• Tactical and Operational Planning knowledge and experience.
• Systems knowledge and experience of SAP R/3 (MM and PP), APO SNP.
• Knowledge and experience of Reporting & Analytics: SAP BW / BO, MS Office.
• Effective and pro-active communication to a wide audience, both ‘up’ and ‘down’.
• Skilled influencer.
• Experience manufacturing production planning and stock management experience in a high-volume environment.
• The role is by definition, a very cross-functionally oriented; therefore, the candidate must present and evidence a level of awareness and understanding of Customer Service, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Finance.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin) Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

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