Logistics & Production Planning Manager

2 weeks ago


King's Lynn, United Kingdom Smartsearch Recruitment Full time

**Logistics & Production Planning Manager, Competitive salary depending on experience + excellent benefits package & career opportunities, Based; King's Lynn**

**Logistics & Production Planning Manager - The role**:

- To create a daily production plan that outlines the order in which units will be worked upon, and the associated staging bay number, operative type, duration of tasks and material requirements.
- To optimise working capital, ensure that appropriate unit assessments are conducted at Off Hire, during storage and before unit preparation to determine the damages, degradation in storage and the amount/type of labour and materials required to completeworks; and ensure this information is maintained in appropriate systems.
- Own the planning process and ensure that the plan is communicated to all internal and external customers.
- Ensure timely documentation is prepared to execute works in line with plan, this includes financial paperwork (e.g. CAPEX requests), work instructions (e.g. gather technical drawings) etc.
- Ensure efficient unit selection to best match the customer requirements and therefore minimize works and associated costs.
- Ownership and management of materials ordering and delivery process to optimise Working Capital and labour requirement
- To prepare a weekly/monthly look ahead production plan that outlines labour and materials requirements for the upcoming weeks. Arrange sub-contractor and agency staff as required. This includes summarizing the skills required, duration, obtaining Managementauthorization and liaison with local labour suppliers.
- Experience in a similar role e.g. Planning Manager, Planning Logistics Manager, Materials Manager or similar
- P+L understanding for material and labour cost control.
- Demonstrable experience in building, leading and developing a team
- Sound knowledge and practical experience of Lean fundamentals and continuous improvement within manufacturing
- Experience of managing and driving a Health and Safety culture
- Experience of delivering results against operational, service, quality, safety and cost targets
- Travel and overnight stays will be required on occasions

Key words; Production Planning Manager, Planning Logistics Manager, Materials Planning Manager

Equal opportunities and diversity: Our client are committed to building a diverse, equal and inclusive culture. They aim to establish and maintain a leadership team and colleague population that reflects our society. They invite all colleagues to bring theirwhole selves to work and strive for an environment which is fair, and in which all of their colleagues are able to do their best each day.



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