Material Planner

**Material Planner**:

- Location: Walsall, GB, WS2 8LD- Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid**Job Title: Material Planner**
**Location: Walsall, West Midlands**
**Compensation: £30,000 - £33,000 dependant on experience + Benefits**
**Role Type: Full time / Permanent**
**Role ID: SF54753**

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Material Planner at our Walsall site.

As a Material Planner, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary. Our Vehicle Engineering business operates a whole life methodology to specialist vehicle conversions. This ranges from concept design and assessment, to manufacture and installation of customer specific equipment, through to maintenance and eventual decommissioning of the vehicle.

Day to day, you will be responsible for managing the release of demands for materials. Moreover, you will coordinate all change control activities, amongst also creating and distributing material availability and shortage reports. This new role brings an opportunity to develop the role through continuous improvement activities.
- Support the Sales and Operations Planning process by developing the material requirements planning capability within the business to align with operational planning and Customer requirements.
- Support in the evolving, manage and maintain the MRP tool. Create and distribute material reports to relevant stakeholders
- Engage with internal stakeholders in continuous improvement activities within the Material planning function and evolve existing processes through continuous improvement tasks; aiming for greater discipline, control and documentation within all functions.
- Raise and release purchase requisitions towards procurement based on demand profiles.
- Control of materials under engineering change process towards all stakeholders. Control the release of engineer Bills of Material towards procurement
- Escalate material availability to purchasing and supply chain management stakeholders and ensure production requirements are communicated and prioritised

This role full time 37.5 hours per week working Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm and Friday 8am-2pm and will be based at Walsall on site

**Essential experience of the Material Planner**:

- Proven experience within an engineering planning environment
- Ability to use spreadsheets (Excel), databases, shared working environment and other IT programmes
- Willingness to work 'hands on' across the wider business when necessary.
- Self-starter with high energy levels, personal drive and commitment.
- Experienced user of material requirements planning systems / Tools

**Qualifications for the Material Planner**:

- Higher Diploma Level or relevant experience

**Our Benefits**
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

**Babcock International**
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

**Closing date: 28/11/23**

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