Production Planner

5 months ago


Leicester, United Kingdom The Recruitment Group Full time

**Production Planner**

Salary is Negotiable
Leicester, LE4
Hours - Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week (finish early on a Friday)

**Production Planner / LE4 / Operations / Planning / Manufacturing / Supply Chain**

The recruitment group is working with a market leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of filtration equipment. Our client has a global presence and delivers a world-class customer experience.

**Purpose of the Production Planner**:
The purpose of the Production Planner is to create effective production plans, with a focus also on maintaining system data integrity and controlling customer order input in line with capacity.

**Main duties and responsibilities of the Production Planner**:

- Plan new orders considering lead times, capacity, and customer needs.
- Analyse and determine lead times for sales orders and enquiries in order to give sales delivery dates for customers.
- Proactively work with the purchasing department to understand material availability and respond to short-term shortages and machinery malfunctions.
- Work closely with the shopfloor, to process shop floor paperwork in accordance with Company procedures to ensure swift and efficient service to the factory.
- Evaluate urgent requirements and be able to identify any system problems before raising new works orders in order to manufacture efficiently and effectively.
- Provide, analyse, and interpret statistics to supply management with relevant and accurate data/reports.
- Engage with and be the prime interface between production and sales to ensure adherence to the production schedule and to report deviations.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and lead/support implementation as required.

**Experience/knowledge requirements for the Production Planner**:

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Computer literacy - Excel
- Experience in a manufacturing production planning role, including experience working with an ERP system as well as having daily customer interaction.
- Experience in material requirement planning and bill of material.
- Ability to read and interpret engineer drawings.
- Understanding of lean manufacturing principles.

**Please contact Amy Large at The Recruitment Group today.**
- Sector**Professional**
- Start**21/08/23**
- End**18/09/23**
- Contact**Amy Large**
- Job Ref**0000031726


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