Production Planner

**Production Planner**

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**This is a contract to cover maternity leave.**

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**Purpose**:
To develop and manage scheduling for serial and NPI production parts. Provide guidance and support to the Operations team to maximize scheduling efficiencies and support planning for increased move rates.

**Main Responsibilities**:
Planning

Order Scheduling: Schedule orders from customers to meet their requests and in consideration of available capacity and materials.

On time delivery: Plan & organise manufacturing to ensure that products are delivered on time.

Customer Service: Give excellent customer service by scheduling orders promptly, and working flexibly to customer requests, enquiries & changes in delivery requirements.

Work Scheduling: Use Materials Requirement Planning system to construct weekly schedules for each manufacturing location. Release jobs to final assembly in test in accordance with job start date.

Capacity planning: Determine available capacity of manufacturing locations by analysis of production load, build rates and staff availability. Use capacity planning tools to support customer order scheduling and identify resource requirements.

Cycle Time: Continuously reduce product lead times.

Order Expediting

Material Planning: Coordinate with Supply Chain on anticipated material shortages and ensure internal suppliers maintain continuity of supply.

Sales liaison: Produce weekly shipment list and communicate to Sales team.

RMAs: Ensure the highest level of customer service is achieved with quality and speed of response.

Monitoring & Analysis

Output Capacity: Monitor and compile data to determine output vs. targets for manufacturing locations. Adjust Capacity plan accordingly.

Quality analysis: Produce Weekly Report analysing shipment values, quality and delivery performance and contribute to continuous improvement by recommending & implementing preventative & corrective measures.

Tools

Capacity Planning

MRP

Customer/project plans

**Essential** **Skills, Qualifications and Experience**

Experience of working within a manufacturing business

Experience of using an MRP system (e.g SAP)

Relevant production planning or scheduling experience

Good written and verbal skills

Accurate and organized

Experience in producing capacity plans and scheduling reports

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.