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Production Planner
£25k to £28k
Days Monday to Friday
Previous Production Planner experience required
Manufacturing, production or an engineering background would be preferred - will be working as part of a team
Permanent Role
Based in the Black Country area
Key responsibilities for a Production Planner
- Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products
- Plan and prioritise operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
- Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget
- Production departmental planning
- Shop floor documentation release & control
- KPI reporting for machine and plant utilisation
- Load production orders onto current IT system
- Utilise order data, routing processes & times to define machine / department plans
- Issue daily, weekly & long-term machine / department future loading analysis
- Communicate with shop floor team leaders and departments priorities
- Issue production plans and release shop floor documentation
- Liaise with internal departments to ensure production is supported
- Progress production throughout plant / departments to meet plans
Details of a Production planner
- Good communicator, written and verbal (presentation)
- Able to build strong relationships, internal and external
- Good Engineering and IT skills
- Mathematically literate, understanding cost and pricing
- Able to work with others, communicating and building robust working relationships with other departments and people across the business
- Demonstrate a positive attitude to new ideas and approaches
- Based in the Black Country area
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