Planner

**Job Title: Assembly Planner**

**Location: Cheltenham**

**Pay Range/details: £28,000 to £42,000**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

The purpose of this role is to create, review and manage the assembly production plan for your designated lines, working with the production teams to supply all demand in line with the customer requirements. The role includes an active involvement with newprojects, the calculation of existing and new stock levels and process design / review within the department.

You have no direct reports but own the planning responsibilities for your designated lines. This includes owning and managing all related activities and interactions as well as the resolution of any issues that stop production or threaten the on-time deliveryof a customer order. There are no budgetary responsibilities in this role.

**Key Responsibilities - Assembly Planner
- Fully understand, review and action MRP messages based on an appropriate degree of analysis of the supply and demand situation.
- To manage the release of sales order demand with the aim of balancing customer requirements with production capabilities.
- Review items as part of the regular Inventory modelling (IQM) process and be able to interpret and recommend the ideal inventory settings and key opportunities to optimize the inventory level e.g. batch size adjustment, lead-time reduction
- Manage all product sales lead-times aiming to maintain on time to customer requested dates while maintaining the ability to deliver product on time to commitment.
- Review the supply of component parts on a daily basis, progressing any key shortages and seeking all possible resolutions which includes, but is not restricted to, suggesting alternative products, shuffling production priorities and identifying substitutecomponents.
- Creation and management of the assembly production plans for your assembly lines and close cooperation with production teams to meet the required deadlines, ensuring the plan is correctly prioritized and any issues are promptly resolved.
- Update all daily and weekly reports required to support customer service and business reporting. This includes, but is not restricted to the Orderbook report and Demand Resource Simulator file (DRS)
- Complete all other requests from other teams including product quotes, sample and modification actions, scrap note approvals, order status updates and revised promise dates
- Support New Product Introductions, continuous improvement programs and any other projects that require planning support
- Provide detailed quotes for large order demands based on production planning logic and process
- Cover for other members of the team when they are out of the office and provide support for any activity reasonably requested by the Assembly Planning Team Leader.

**Qualifications & Requirements - Assembly Planner
- Must have experience of planning a production environment and experience planning with MRP is very desirable.
- Experience working within a mechanical engineering production environment is preferable. Use of product knowledge in planning also preferable.
- Knowledge of using an IT based planning system essential, knowledge of using an ERP system desirable and knowledge of JDE Edwards Enterprise 1 is very beneficial.
- Excellent organizational skills
- Good time management and prioritization skills, including the ability to meet deadlines
- Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
- A good understanding of mathematical logic and English spelling and grammar
- Good level of initiative, ability to address problems and issues without guidance
- Self-starter and results orientated
- Ability to deal with demanding situations and / or people
- Good negotiation skills (especially when prioritizing)
- Proactive communicator
- Excellent level of initiative, highly focused on continuous improvement

**What we can offer - Assembly Planner
- Private Medical Insurance
- Generous Pension Contribution
- 27 Days holiday + UK public Holidays
- Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Cycle to work
- Life Assurance

For more information on this role, please contact Michael Farrell on or send a copy of your CV to

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Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.