Production Planner

Are you an experienced, results-driven Production Planner looking for an exciting new role, living in and around Northants, Warks, or Bucks?

We are a dedicated customer-centric business, with a high-priority focus on customer satisfaction and communication. We enjoy a good relationship with our UK and International OEM clients.

Your relentless desire to improve manufacturing performance in partnership with the production supervisor will be crucial in supporting this quickly growing and exciting company as we ramp up our journey to achieve our growth goals for the end of the decade.

DMP is looking for a results-driven and confident Production Planner who has at least 2 years of production management or supply chain experience and is able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment.

The successful person will be organised with a robust problem-solving capability and can accurately communicate information to internal and external stakeholders with maximum clarity.

Your relentless desire to improve manufacturing performance, and work in tandem with our production supervisor will be crucial in this role and ultimately in supporting this quickly growing, exciting company as we push forward in our journey to achieve ourgrowth goals for the end of the decade.

We hope the successful person will relish the challenge of joining this fast-paced business with huge opportunities for growth and career progression.

**Key duties for the Production Planner will include**:

- coordinating production workflow across specified product lines.
- prioritising operations and/or jobs to meet the key requirements of internal and external customers.
- assisting the Production Supervisor to determine and generate the resource planning requirements for your plan.
- assigning jobs to key production areas of the business - monitoring these in-process jobs for on-time completion.
- assessing the material requirement for job launch and completion, making sure all materials have been purchased in line with your plan.
- determining manpower, equipment, and raw materials needed to cover production demand.
- generating and controlling planning KPIs - such as OTIF, quality defect %, and productivity reports.
- chairing the regular morning production meeting along with the Production Supervisor.

**Benefits**:

- 25 days annual holiday allowance
- 9 x statutory paid holidays 2023 allowance
- Contributory pension
- Financial reward schemes
- On-site secure parking

**Essential Skills**:

- Engineering knowledge and background with a good process understanding of Laser, Bending, Mig, & CNC Machining
- Capacity planning and resource planning knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
- 2+ years' experience in a similar planning role
- Experience using ERP & MRP systems

**Desirable Skills**:

- Engineering qualification - preferably BEng
- Logistics experience
- Team management and leadership experience
- Epicor ERP experience is desirable, similar system experience welcome e.g., SAP, Oracle etc.

**About Company** Daventry Metal Products - DMP, a long-established engineering component manufacturer supplying Original Equipment Manufacturer customers in power generation, lifting and handling equipment, automotive, yellow goods, commercial truck and bus, materials Handling,agriculture, and medical industry sectors, producing a vast portfolio of parts.