Production Planner In Ferndown

Production Scheduler / Production Planner

As the Production Planner, to manage daily production planning, scheduling and support on-time delivery within a busy engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities of the Production Planner:

• Maintain and update the production schedule using an in house scheduling system.
• Translate production forecasts into detailed schedules, coordinating materials and resources, and maintaining the production process, to ensure that the team meet customer expectations
• Communicate schedule updates and negotiate delivery dates with customers directly (over the telephone / email).
• Raise works orders and ensure all requirements are captured accurately.
• Work with Production to resolve schedule slippages and implement recovery plans.
• Liaise with Purchasing to ensure raw material availability.
• Data Management: Maintain accurate planning data via order management software and other internal systems, and generate reports to highlight progress, risks, bottlenecks etc.
• Identify process gaps and support initiatives to enhance planning quality and efficiency
• Monitor material issuing and inventory levels.
• Provide monthly KPI reporting.
• Support Quality with corrective actions and reviews.

The Production Planner will be required to have:

• Experience in production planning or scheduling ideally within engineering/manufacturing or a resource planning environment.
• Strong communication, organisation and time-management skills.
• Confident working under pressure and managing multiple priorities.
• This is a standalone position, so whilst you will be working closely with various internal stakeholders (Operations, purchasing, production, quality) you will need to be self-motivated, with the confidence to manage and set your own priorities, in order to achieve objectives.
• Advanced Excel – essential
• Confidence with ERP / MRP or other similar planning tools is essential
• Data monitoring experience – largely system generated, but you will need to be able to manage and manipulate data through the order management software.
• systems savvy, with a data driven mindset

What’s on offer:

• A generous basic salary of up to £40k, depending on experience
• Full time hours, flexible hours with an early finish on a Friday
• 24 days holiday (Plus bank holidays)
• Free parking on site