Manufacturing Planner

**Job title**:
Manufacturing Planner

**Job Summary**:
The Manufacturing Planner is responsible to implement, monitor, measure, and report production schedules to assure that matched sets of materials and capacities are available to meet the needs of customers and that production schedules are met. This includes management of all planning and production execution data including the creation of work orders, identification and management of priorities, capacity constraints, production monitoring, etc.

**Essential Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Implements an effective and appropriate capacity management and production monitoring system.
- Maintains all MRP planning and scheduling parameters for all "make" items.
- Analyses planned order reports and provides timely release of production work orders specified by the Production Plan.
- Interfaces with production teams and procurement specialists to prioritize the most critical items.
- Identifies and brings to resolution any production demand/supply imbalances in both volume and mix.
- Provides daily guidance and information to the product line team regarding status of production schedules.
- Prepares and communicates shortage and backlog reports and provides visibility of other potential interruptions to the Planning Manager.
- Monitor’s production progress against scheduling needs and intervenes as necessary to bring deliveries back into compliance with production schedules.
- Identifies and reports opportunities and implements actions continually to reduce waste shorten lead times, reduce costs, etc.
- Reports all scheduling, capacity, and production tracking data, statistics and metrics as defined by the Master Schedule policy.

**Qualifications**:
Business Administration, Engineering, Finance or related field bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

**Skills and Experience**:

- Minimum preferred two years’ experience in a Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or Finance role.
- Good product knowledge and customer knowledge.
- Good Manufacturing processes knowledge.
- Advanced level understanding of ERP software systems, ideally with SAP
- Open to flexible, hybrid working with a combination of on-site & home working days.