Production Planner

**The Company is one of the UK’s leading independent aerospace and industrial forgers.** The unique feature 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.

**The Role...**

Reporting to the Production Control Manager, you will prioritise and plan workload on forge production units, based on requirements of Production Control.

**Key Responsibilities...**
- Implementing and maintaining the computerised planning system to maintain departmental production schedules, forecast sales, customer update information.
- Daily liaison with production departments to ensure plan is maintained or issues are reported and acted on appropriately.
- Management and expediting of orders from order receipt to despatch, including communication with NPI team prior to production.
- Work with wider production control team to ensure all ancillary functions are kept at an appropriate standard. This can include but is not limited to stock control, management of sub-contractors, liaising with customers and continuous improvement projects covering a wide range of activities.
- Responsible for paperwork control, issue of paperwork to operations.
- Feedback progress to business and management team.
- Take reasonable care of own health and safety, and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work, co-operate with others in the company to fulfil our statutory duties and not interfere with, misuse or wilfully damage, anything provided in the interest of health and safety.

**Skills and Experience...**
- **Essential**:_
- IT literacy.
- Communication skills (spoken and written).
- Numeracy skills.
- Good planning and organisation skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Flexible and proactive approach.
- Ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative.

**Qualifications**
- **Essential**:_
- Educated to 5 GCSE’s A-C or equivalent, including Maths and English.

**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.
- **Always looking for improvement** - our teams are excellent at what they do and are constantly working to improve our processes.

**Why work for us?**

As one of the UK’s leading forge 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 - the Company wants to provide its employees a good foundation for the life 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 - the Company provides level 1 health cash plan 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.
- Tax efficiency schemes: Childcare vouchers and Cycle to Work.
- Free work wear and PPE.
- On-site parking is available.
- Focus on wellbeing and mental health awareness.
- Trust - we encourage you to come up with ideas and get the most out of your job with us.
- Development - we offer genuine development opportunities to progress your career.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £30,000.00-£33,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Work Location: In person