Production Planner

8 months ago


Warwick, United Kingdom Millbank Group Full time

Do you want to work for one of the World’s most famous Car manufacturers based in the West Midlands?

Are you skilled in Vehicle and/or Production Planning or Production Scheduling?

If your answer is “yes,” we have the job opportunity for you just here

the opportunity

the role

As the Production Planner, your role is to take responsibility for creating and maintaining the master production schedule, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing best practices to ensure on-time delivery of vehicles.

your duties and responsibilities will be
- To liaise with Sales & other related Depts to ensure production plan/PTS reflects customer requirements.
- Collaborate with the manufacturing, engineering, and Supplier capacity planners to ensure the availability of materials and resources necessary to meet production plan.
- Monitor production performance and make adjustments to the production schedule as necessary to ensure on-time delivery of vehicles.
- Allocate customer orders into vehicle ‘slots’ in the production schedule - ensure delivery dates are met, supply lead times respected, production constraints are not broken and level demand where possible. Analyse demand patterns and production constraints.
- Track aged WIP in the factory process against required PTS dates and communicate with production and factory planner where required.
- Planning of factory areas such as Tubs, Trim and Paint.
- Ensure the correct cars are PTS to support Sales targets and car shipping.
- Develop and maintain production planning tools, including capacity planning models, production schedules.
- Manage all related production control data to maintain smooth flow & promote continuous improvement.
- Ensure planning systems are accurately maintained.
- Liaise with Launch Team for the scheduling of Product Development cars within Production schedule.
- Ensure Working Capital / work in progress is optimised across all manufacturing facilities.
- Support in the creation and manage key metric dashboards for use by the business to manage throughput targets and constraints tracking.
- Lead improvement activities and drive to improve KPI’s.
- Reflect learnings to New Model scheduling to improve Launch activity.
- Support / lead any other related tasks to maintain or improve production scheduling & execution.

you will have the following qualifications & experience
- You will need to be experienced as a Production Planner / Production Scheduler, combining this ideally with Automotive industry experience.
- You will have the ability to communicate with tact and diplomacy, together with the ability to work accurately and efficiently, taking resourceful action during periods of considerable pressure.
- Should have an understanding of S/OP process.
- Should have experience using an ERP system in a Planning role.
- Proficiency in data analysis tools such as Excel or Tableau needed.

it’s great if you also have the following
- The ability to create & use business intelligence tools such as Power BI / SSRS / Domo / Birst including writing SQL queries would be preferable.
- An awareness of Production System / Lean Manufacturing would be an advantage.
- Familiar with the INFOR ERP system would be a bonus.
- Experience using root cause problem solving techniques would be advantageous.

get in touch today

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