Material Planner

Material Planner-00W44

**Description**
**Cobham Mission Systems, now part of the Eaton portfolio, have exciting opportunities, due to growth within the department, for Material Planners**

The purpose of the role:

- Act as the Operations point of contact for allocated for demand, including customer forecast and repairs as appropriate
- Responsible for ensuring that all of the necessary actions required to satisfy demand is completed to cost and schedule. This may include supporting the provision of stock to meet contractual turnaround times whilst optimising stock levels

**Reporting to the Demand Manager, this role is based from Wimborne, Dorset.**

**We are able to offer flexible working arrangements, such as working remotely with attendance **on site on an agreed basis a**s required.**

**As a Material Planner, your skills and qualifications will ideally include**:

- At least 2+ year’s experience working as in production control within a technology company (ideally mechanical/aerospace)
- Possess knowledge of supply chain activities, including transformation of components into a finished product that is delivered to the end customer. Recognize the ways that supply chains link value chains
- Able to work to financial and time sensitive constraints
- Customer orientation - Intermediate
- Influence & Communication - Intermediate
- Managing Time & Priorities - Intermediate
- Initiative & Drive - Advanced
- Detailed Scheduling & Planning - Intermediate
- Supply Chain Logistics - Advanced

**As a Material Planner, your main responsibilities will involve**:

- Liaise closely with the Customer Services Representatives / Commercial and other functions to ensure all customer orders are loaded with the appropriate lead-time etc.
- Take responsibility for identifying and support resolving all problems with fulfilling demand to schedule and cost
- Pro-actively manage schedule dates and drive towards satisfying customer request dates
- To actively create and manage information that allows demand to be tracked and progressed through Operations
- Provide input into weekly and monthly reports as required
- Support improvement strategies within Operations that ultimately support improvements to delivery performance, inventory and reduce costs
- Liaise closely with Procurement and other warehouses to ensure that Operations are able to deliver to committed due dates
- Where appropriate compile strip and survey reports as requested by customers
- Lead/attend drumbeat reviews to ensure timely progression of all tasks associated with progressing demand through the business
- Generate and upkeep necessary KPI’s and performance board information
- Release and control of work orders including management of part requirements and start dates and works order exception messages

**About Cobham Mission Systems**

As the world’s leading supplier of critical control solutions, we help our customers to increase the safety and mission capabilities of their personnel and equipment in extreme environments.

Our proven and trusted solutions in air-to-air refuelling, life support, weapons carriage and unmanned systems, deliver assured performance and class-leading through-life costs that enable our customers to bring complex projects to market quickly, and with mínimal risk.

We offer challenging and rewarding roles across a wide range of disciplines that combine to make us a true global technology and service leader.

Our ethos is rooted firmly in our history of innovation, leadership and empowerment and we take great pride in solving the big problems that others can’t. If it can be done we can find a way.

We believe in operating as a team, both among ourselves and alongside our partners. And we believe in pushing our potential to its very limit.

After all, we did not get to where we are now, nor will we succeed in the future, by being unambiguous or complacent. For us, Every Mission Matters.

**What You Can Expect From Us**

We offer an excellent salary and benefits package which includes an annual bonus, employer matched pension scheme of up to 12%, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with options to buy/sell 5 days per year, company funded life cover of 3x salary and income protection scheme as well as a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme. In addition, we offer a wide range of additional benefits through our Cobham Choice Benefit Portal covering Health & Wellbeing benefits, Insurances, Cycle Scheme, Gym Flex, Technology Scheme and discounted Retail Vouchers to name a few.

If successful, you will be required to pass a criminal record check and a security clearance.

**Working at CMS Wimborne**
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**Job Category** Operations
**Primary Location**UK-England-Dorset
**Organization** CMS - Wimborne
**Schedule** Full-time

**Recruiter** Stephen B