Commerical Planner

Independent Forgings and Alloys (IFA) is one of Britain’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers. The unique feature about IFA is the combination of open and closed-die forging while also undertaking the whole production process from raw material to the finished product in one location. Operating from a 680 000ft2 facility in Sheffield, we manufacture high-integrity, open-die and closed-die forged components in nickel alloy, titanium, stainless steel and carbon alloys for customers and tier-one suppliers within the aerospace, nuclear, power generation, marine as well as oil and gas sector.

**Key Details**

Work hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 8:15-16:30, Friday 8:15-16:00

Location: Hillsborough, Sheffield

Job type: Permanent, Full-time

Independent Forgings and Alloys (IFA) is one of Britain’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers. The unique feature about IFA is the combination of open and closed-die forging while also undertaking the whole production process from raw material to the finished product in one location. Operating from a 680 000ft2 facility in Sheffield, we manufacture high-integrity, open-die and closed-die forged components in nickel alloy, titanium, stainless steel and carbon alloys for customers and tier-one suppliers within the aerospace, nuclear, power generation, marine as well as oil and gas sector.

**Main Purpose of the Role**

We are looking for a talented, driven individual to join our commercial department as a Commercial Planner. Reporting to the Supply Sales Manager, you will be responsible for planning production orders, liaising with external customers and other departments, and providing administrative support to the supply sales as well as production control team. This is a dynamic office based role and in an environment consistently delivering above target sales figures in line with ambitious business growth plans.

**Key Accountabilities**

**Responsibilities**:

- Forge planning for production orders based on customer required dates.
- Issuing works orders to technical and production control.
- Providing administration support for export compliance and the sales as well as production control team.
- Complete sales contract reviews on orders.
- Communicating with customer liaison frequently with information for customers.
- Enquiring price and availability of material, raising material purchase orders and expediting material when required.

And other reasonable duties and instructions.

**Skills and Experience**

**Essential**:

- Ensure adherence to right first time. Continuous consideration of the quality of one’s own tasks and how this affects others.
- Ability and experience in planning/organising work load.
- Attention to detail.
- Customer service awareness with excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Pro-active approach.
- IT skills (Working knowledge of Office packages)
- Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a team.
- Continuous improvement focused

**Desirable**:

- Basicunderstanding of metallurgy, production or engineering.

**Qualifications**

**Essential**:

- Educated to 5 GCSE’s A-C including Maths and English.

**Desirable**:

- Educated to A-Level including Maths and English.
- University degree in an area related to business, engineering or production.

**Company principles and culture**

Our vision of success through integrity is supported by our core values:

- **Working safely** - safety is a priority in all that we do, both the safety of all on site and the provision of a safe product.
- **Teamwork** - by working respectfully together on teams across our business, we build great relationships, recognize outstanding contributions and create the environment for our highly skilled workforce to support our customers in meetings their requirements.
- **Continually Improving Quality and Performance** - our teams are excellent at what they do and are constantly working to improve our processes.

**Why work for us?**

At IFA we pride ourselves on being a great place to work. As one of the UK’s leading forging manufacturers we want to ensure that we attract, motivate and retain the best people who can deliver the best service to the company and our customers.

**We offer you**:

- Competitive pay.
- Holidays - you will have 33 days holiday, including bank holidays.
- Pension scheme - IFA wants to provide its employees a good foundation for the live after work and hence offers a 5% contribution. The pension scheme comes along with further discounts on health, travel and rescue insurances.
- Bonus scheme - this is linked to team and company performance.
- Westfield cash plan - IFA provides the level 1 private healthcare scheme which comes along with numerous discounts and special offers, including gym discounts, online, high street and grocery retailers and many more.
- Death in service payment, full company sick pay and long service rewards.
- Child vouchers to help with childc