Production Planner

Contact:
No Agencies please

Overview:
The Production Planner coordinates planning and inventory operations efficiently and with safety at the forefront. They will liaise with other Supply Chain and Manufacturing departments to achieve customer satisfaction. They will also lead the development and implementation of systems, processes and training relating to Planning. Additionally, they will support the Supply Chain Supervisor with development projects and reporting tasks.

This role demands strong analytical skills, business acumen, and interpersonal skills, this will allow the role holder to build and maintain relationships with commercial colleagues, as well as other internal stakeholders.

This role may suit someone with experience gained in a manufacturing environment or planning, or for someone with relevant transferable skills and the ambition to become an integral part of a successful manufacturing brand.

Qualifications:

- English & Maths GCSE (A-C)
- Six Sigma Green Belt (Or similar)
- Knowledge of non-woven, extrusion and conversion processes desirable.

**Responsibilities**:
SAFETY - Ensure that you and your work colleagues are not put at unnecessary risk of harm. It is expected that you will not only follow company safety policies, but will actively ensure others do the same.
- Ensuring BBS and Near Miss targets are met, and adhere to all EHS policies.
- Participate in reviews to update and complete Risk Assessments, by developing and implementing control measures to lower risks.

SCHEDULING & INVENTORY - Oversee the production scheduling plan to ensure the correct inventory levels of Manufactured Finished Goods and Raw Materials are available to support the on time delivery of customer orders and strategic growth plans, whilst optimising yields and reducing changeovers. Using an analytic approach to monitor and react to changes in product demand and strategic inventory levels.
- Manage MRP reporting for Manufactured and Raw Material SKU’s ensuring stock keeping unit information and item card are updated (ROP’s/ROQ’s)
- Campaign Plan Analysis, highligting requirements for additional labour to meet customer demand.
- Schedule production of MTS SKU’s replenishment, maximising production efficinecies.
- Schedule production of MTO SKU’s achieving the customers requested delivery requirement.
- Create production job packs, inventory picks and production putaways.
- Monitor production updates to acurately update the planning tool, its data base and ERP system.
- Maintain updated SKU List (Kept / Not Kept SKU’s)
- Analyse historical data and monitor inventory levels of MTS SKU’s based on historical sales and commercial forecasts, proposing changes to current stock holding levels with commercial team.
- Ensure agreed stock holding levels are achieved and maintained.
- Monitor plan adherence metrics, including accuracy of job completion times.
- Support Finance and Production team to meet monthly capacity recovery targets.
- Report stock level attainment (did we achieve what we planned).
- Report stock level effectiveness (was it the right quantity to support actual sales).
- Aged inventory reporting and actions.
- Ensuring SOPs are up-to-date, loaded into BMS.
- Measuring and monitoring daily KPI’s and tracking on up-to-date visual management boards.
- Presenting data and improvement opportunities for the departments.
- Support with Stock Takes.