Production Planner

**Opportunity**:
Work in progress reporting and assisting with forecasting projections will also form a key part of the role.

**Duties will include**:

- Manage production orders/job releases with associated work packs for the production teams.
- Schedule production resource in line with order fulfilment requirements.
- Continually assess and review available capacity versus future demands and work with colleagues and stakeholders to address any issues.
- Manage and report utilisation of the available capacity, highlighting any areas of weakness for future improvement planning.
- Work cross functionally with Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality etc to ensure that all matrix commitments remain to plans and to production schedules.
- Create a suite of reports highlighting WIP (work in progress) progression then manage and distribute to stakeholders ongoing.
- Provide management updates with visibility of material shortages, resource delays, variances or other potential conflicts or constraints to the production plan.
- Familiarise, review and manage the production function in accordance with company procedures and practices.
- Through the use of bespoke systems, produce work orders for the production process
- Ensure deliveries are made on time, in full to meet customer specifications
- Maintain any stock levels or raw, intermediate and finished material
- Identify opportunities for efficiency and cost saving improvements and liaise cross functionally as required to develop and embed the changes.
- Maintain and manage MRP data associated with the production function to ensure business data integrity.
- Complete and submit Non-conformance observations arising in production areas for corrective action close out.

**Skills and experience required**:

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills

Previous experience of working in a Production Planner or Controller role.
- IT Literate with excellent knowledge and experience of using ERP and/or MRP systems and resource planning tools such as MS Project.
- Experience of working in highly regulated and/or legislatively controlled environments and industry sectors.
- Experience of Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing principals.
- Bachelor's Degree, HND/HNC in Production, Engineering, Supply Chain or Business-related discipline.
- Six Sigma Green Belt and/or Lean Manufacturing Practitioner

**Benefits**:

- Role
- specific Bonus Plans
- Company Pension Scheme
- 33 Days Annual Leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the Westfield Health Scheme
- Death in Service Benefit

Brewster Partners Office Support & Technical Recruitment is a division of the Brewster Partners Recruitment Group focusing on the recruitment of talent in administration, business support, HR, sales, marketing and purchasing in South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire,East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North West, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and the Midlands. If you are interested in discussing this job in more detail or any other aspect of office support and technical recruitment we would really like to hear from you.Please visit our website at Brewster Partners for more information.