Our established client is looking to recruit for a Capacity / Material planner to organise production according to demand and quality standards. You will need to demonstrate a full understanding of customer expectations with an awareness of the impact that poor product quality has on customer trust and company's reputation.
Duties:
- Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products via capacity planning & lead time systems.
- Maintain the build schedules for all assembled manufactured products in line with customer requirements.
- Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand.
- Adhere to the production plan weekly, ensuring maximum customer satisfaction and best production efficiency working with current systems.
- BOM integration to support material planning activities.
- Organise production builds to satisfy customer demand & avoid productivity stoppage.
- Obtain purchased part/material rescheduling requirements with relevant buyer and confirm delivery dates.
- Keep up to date with supplier performance and discuss with Purchasing Team Leader on a weekly basis.
- Prepare and submit status and performance reports.
Skills
- Enthusiastic about the team and able to anticipate issues and problem solve in a fast-paced changing environment.
- Well versed in production procedures and ways to optimise them.
- Organised and results driven with great problem-solving skills.
- Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles
- An understanding of manufacturing processes
- Working knowledge of MS Office and systems
- Good at math and statistics
The company offer a fantastic work environment, excellent benefit package and career progression.