Materials Planner

Materials Planner required on a permanent basis

Materials Planner Monday to Friday - you choose your hours between 7am - 7pm Salary up to £30,000 per annum plus two bonuses on top A chance to gain an additional 12 days holiday per year

Must have previous experience within manufacturing planning, reviewing the flow of work orders through a department, SAP experience is a massive bonus, Power BI as well.

Monday to Friday office hours 1pm Friday finish

This role will report to the Planning Team leader. Its primary responsibility is to assist with planning and prioritising operations, ensuring that goods are produced on time for distribution in a profitable manner. The goal is to ensure the smooth and cost-efficient flow of our production operations.

An excellent Planner is well-versed in production procedures and ways to optimise them. They are organised, results-driven, and have excellent problem-solving skills.

You will collaborate with the Senior MPS planner to provide regular updates concerning any foreseen order delays to our external TSS colleagues, assist in assessing capacity constraints posed by incoming demand, aid production in evaluating order patterns and highlighting possible areas of concern, help production in its efforts to remove bottlenecks, arrears and provide manufacturing documentation.

1. Tasks and Responsibilities

· Releasing rapid / expedited production orders manually and adjusting volumes outside the automated ERP process.

· Monitor production progress, highlighting and addressing delays, then adjusting priorities as needed.

· Planning and levelling capacity, prioritising operations for optimal performance.

· Working with production to determine manpower, equipment, and raw material needs.

· Continuously seek and implement opportunities for process improvements.

· Addressing issues promptly to minimise disruptions.

· Coordinating production workflows for one or multiple products.

· Entering sales orders into the ERP system.

· Running the ERP system to generate daily manufacturing orders.

Collating manufacturing orders, including assembling document packs for production cells (e.g., printing drawings, inspection plans, and data sheets).

· Handling administrative emails.

· Identifying issues in document packs before release.

· Sending order chases to advise of delays.

· Performing general data entry and administrative tasks.

· Collecting output information (e.g., finished product count, defect percentages).

· Prepare and submit status and performance reports.

· Organising paperwork.

· Collaborating with quality control and warehouse staff

2. Education and Experience

· Proven experience in planning or scheduling within a manufacturing environment.

· Excellent knowledge of production planning

· Strong analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis

· Working SAP knowledge and being able to interrogate SAP for crucial information and reporting.

· Proficient Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI

· Ability to understand technical drawings.

3. Competences

· Knowledge of SAP

· Able to build Material and product knowledge.

· Able to operate in an engineering environment.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required to represent the Group appropriately.

· Ability to handle complex planning with many constraints and many stakeholders.

· Able to operate with a high degree of autonomy and initiative

· Exceptional organisational, time-management, communication, and teamwork skills.

· Ability to thrive under pressure and adapt to changing priorities.

· Highly self-motivated

4. Key Interfaces and Stakeholders

External TSS:

· Customer Solution Centres (CSC)

· Supply Chain Management (SCM)

· Quality

· Purchasing

· Dispatch

· Product Engineering

· Finance

· SAP consultants

6. Behavioural Characteristics

· Flexibility: Adaptability to changing circumstances.

· Team Player: Ability to collaborate effectively within a team.

· Service-minded: Focused on providing excellent service.

· Calm Under Pressure: Maintaining composure in stressful situations.

· Self-motivated and Engaged: Demonstrating initiative and enthusiasm.

· Organised: Structured and efficient in managing tasks.

· Excellent Communication Skills: Effective verbal and written communication.

· Diligent: Thorough and attentive to details.

· Accurate: Precision in work and data.

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