Production Planner

Are you a Production Planner looking for a new role Are you skilled in producing accurate Production Plans to meet customer orders in a fast paced manufacturing environment Are you looking to work as a Production Planner in a well-established and ambitious manufacturing business

Kingscroft has been asked to recruit for a Production Planner by a specialist manufacturing organisation. As the ideal candidate you will have experience of Production Planning in a multi process business using MRP software. You will be confident of Planning Customer orders , monitoring stock and working closely with Production , Purchasing and Customer Service teams to schedule Production to meet targets and order requirements.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain production schedules within capacity and resource targets and co-ordinate the schedules with production to ensure inventory targets and customer demand is met.
• Evaluate Raw Material and Consumable demand to ensure everything is in place for production.
• Manage volume fluctuations considering sales vs forecast and anticipate production changes.
• Manage life cycles of SKU's to ensure stock availability to meet business Customer OTIF.
• Assist with Investigation of stock discrepancies and stock shortages to determine root cause.
• Communicate with Customer Service on lead times and availability of products.
• Problem solve issues that may arise with production scheduling and deadlines.
• Ensure planning schedules support optimisation of production efficiency, plant utilisation, labour availability, material usage, changeovers and customer service.
• Execute high standards of capacity planning across production for high OTIF.
• Manage daily scheduling activities and take the lead in decision making for optimising plans and effect high standards of communication across the business.
• Continuously evaluate planning, stock control systems and KPIs for improvements.
• Ensure KPI targets for production planning, stock availability, lead times, delivery performance and customer service levels are consistently achieved.
• Promote new ideas, continuous improvement and learning.
• Ensure full compliance with ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play an integral part in delivering customer success through an accurate Production schedule. The business is well invested , succesful and has solid growth plans in place.

Please apply today for a confidential discussion on the role , company and opportunity.

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