Production Planner

**Production Planner, Whitehaven, salary is dependant on experience.**

Adecco are delighted to be working with our client who are a global manufacturing company & a leader within their market.

Due to recent growth & investment a permanent, full-time role has arisen to join this local employer of choice.

**Duties include**:

- The creation and co-ordination of production schedules to optimise and maximise production output
- Planning and monitoring production capacity to meet demands for sales orders
- Recording and monitoring delivery performance of product deliveries
- Purchasing and expediting inventory and external fulfilment operations to meet planned production and delivery requirements
- Determining optimum inventory levels of raw materials
- Maintaining and updating purchasing records/data
- Assisting the Commercial Manager and Manufacturing Manager when required.

This is an excellent career opportunity for someone with planning experience used to handling multiple tasks and prioritising workload to meet customer expectations.

You should possess excellent communication skills, the ability to manage workload under pressure and meet agreed deadlines

Proficiency in MS Office is essential, particularly Excel. An understanding of SAP would be an advantage. You should also possess excellent writing, documentation, reporting and analytical skills

The role may warrant an amount of travel to external meetings with vendors and a full UK driving license is essential.

Ideally for this role you will have experience working within a manufacturing environment.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.