Material Planner

Job Title: Material Planner
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: £30,000 - £33,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54753

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Material Planner at our Walsall site.

The role

As a Material Planner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Our Vehicle Engineering business operates a whole life methodology to specialist vehicle conversions. This ranges from concept design and assessment, to manufacture and installation of customer specific equipment, through to maintenance and eventual decommissioning of the vehicle.
Day to day, you will be responsible for managing the release of demands for materials. Moreover, you will coordinate all change control activities, amongst also creating and distributing material availability and shortage reports. This new role brings an opportunity to develop the role through continuous improvement activities.

• Support the Sales and Operations Planning process by developing the material requirements planning capability within the business to align with operational planning and Customer requirements.
• Support in the evolving, manage and maintain the MRP tool. Create and distribute material reports to relevant stakeholders
• Engage with internal stakeholders in continuous improvement activities within the Material planning function and evolve existing processes through continuous improvement tasks; aiming for greater discipline, control and documentation within all functions.
• Raise and release purchase requisitions towards procurement based on demand profiles.
• Control of materials under engineering change process towards all stakeholders. Control the release of engineer Bills of Material towards procurement
• Escalate material availability to purchasing and supply chain management stakeholders and ensure production requirements are communicated and prioritised

This role is full time and 37.5 hours per week and will be based at our Walsall site. Monday-Thursday 8:30am-5pm and Friday 8:30am-2pm.

Essential experience of the Material Planner

• Proven experience within an engineering planning environment
• Ability to use spreadsheets (Excel), databases, shared working environment and other IT programmes
• Willingness to work 'hands on' across the wider business when necessary.
• Self-starter with high energy levels, personal drive and commitment.
• Experienced user of material requirements planning systems / Tools

Qualifications for the Material Planner

• Higher Diploma Level or relevant experience is desirable but not essential

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.