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Senior Production Planner

Senior Production Planner

Reed Specialist RecruitmentUnited Kingdom
29 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

A great opportunity has arisen for a Production Planner to join a leading manufacturer who supply solutions to the oil & gas and offshore industry.

Job Description :

  • Day-to-day responsibility for the Planning team and their development
  • Work with management team to support strategic and operations planning
  • Creates and maintains a clear lines of communication with Team Leaders, Production Managers, Project Manager, Sales and Buying teams daily
  • Direct ALL Master Scheduling activity, incorporating Forecasts into Master Production Schedules
  • Generate and update daily, weekly and monthly production status reports
  • Performs any necessary support functions as required by procurement process
  • Manage all related MRP maintenance, including resolving problems with Engineering and Receiving and Inspection as necessary
  • Proper and timely implementation of change orders
  • Maintain optimal inventory levels through the active use of MRP and the maintenance of all required parameters including assembly lead times, days' supply, EOQ, for all assemblies
  • Active support of R&D and new product activities
  • Analyse data to update staff schedules (Capacity) to reach the agreed quota in the manufacturing process
  • Monitor inventory levels and actively trial kit, whilst reviewing Minimum stock order levels and order increments
  • Regularly provide production status updates to senior team whilst implementing and maintaining planning visual management tools
  • Facilitate the timely delivery of products to customers, maintain OTIF expectation
  • Closely monitor the production process to ensure that production orders are completed on time and within budget.
  • MRP maintenance of timings and routings
  • Support the continuous improvement drive throughout the business
  • The creation and maintenance of KPI's
  • Other duties as assigned.

Beneficial Skills / Qualifications :

  • Educated in a technical or business management field
  • Technical training in project management advantageous
  • Proven competency in manufacturing resource planning / materials requirements planning
  • Prior manufacturing experience
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
  • MRP system functionality
  • Microsoft Excel to advanced standard ideally : (pivot tables, vlookups advantageous)
  • Production planning processes
  • Outstanding communication skills
  • Exceptional organisational and motivational skills
  • Ability to work within a team
  • Must be computer literate
  • Production processes within an engineering business preferred
  • MRP / ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics Navision most advantageous)
  • Prior manufacturing experience
  • 5 years of experience of manufacturing resource planning / materials requirements planning
  • 5 years of Leadership experience
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and technical communications
  • Maintain behaviour in compliance with HSE requirements.
  • Maintain responsibility and accountability through personal commitment and behaviour.
  • Report any unsafe or environmentally unsound acts and conditions to their immediate Supervisor such that remedial action can be taken to manage the risk.

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