Production Planner

Production Planner

Stone

£19,000-25,000 dep on experience

23 days holiday plus company pension

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm

Overview

My client, an established manufacturer in Staffordshire has a vacancy for a planner who would be responsible for the day to day scheduling of the Company's manufacturing machinery.

Principal areas of Responsibility

• Maintain schedule of jobs for each machine so as to:
  • Ensure delivery of completed jobs on time
  • Maximise machine running hours
  • Take advantage of efficiencies between jobs
    
• Import of new jobs into planning system and allocation to machinery.
  
• Daily revisions to the manufacturing schedule to reflect changing circumstances and new priorities.
  
• Maintain long term plan with jobs allocated to likely production windows.
  
• Generation of capacity information including:
  • Determination of whether new work can be accommodated a short notice
  • Determination of lead-times
  • Identification of capacity issues as new jobs are loaded.
    
• Maintain detailed view of status of components required for jobs to go live including:
  • Materials
  • Prior conversion operations
  • Tooling
    
• Liaison with suppliers to progress material and other deliveries required for production.
  
• Develop detailed knowledge of machinery to enable:
  • Refinement of running data
  • Utilise interchangeability of jobs between machines
  • Identify problem jobs
    
• Liaison with transport department to provide details for daily load planning.
• The ideal candidate will:

Qualifications / Experience

• Have some experience of planning / scheduling
• Be capable of careful analysis and logical decision making
• Have good IT skills

Package

• Commensurate with experience
• Company pension scheme

At Morgan Ryder we can provide you with a full range of employment opportunities from short term and fixed term temporary vacancies to permanent positions.

We recruit for companies that operate in the following industries: Food and Drink Manufacturers, FMCG, Packaging, Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace, Warehousing, Logistics, Waste Management, Petro Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Power & Renewable Energy.