Materials Planner

Materials Planner

Golborne Location (WA3 3JD)

Monday to Friday

Circa GBP30,000 - GBP32,000 + Excellent Benefits & Career Progression Opportunities

At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world.

Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 46 countries.

At our Golborne site (5 mins from the J22 or J23 M6) based on the East Lancs Road, we employ over 270 colleagues' who produce a number of packaging solutions on a 24/7 basis for major international customers.

Main purpose of Material Resource Planner:

To assist the effective control, stocks and supply of raw materials to the Golborne site.

Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to)

• To ensure that all material figures are checked and entered into the relevant systems.
• Coordinate material deliveries.
• Produce detailed stock and consumption figures for all materials on a monthly basis
• Procurement of all necessary materials without excessive stock holding including monthly forecasts
• Completion of month end and year end reconciliation reports.
• Fulfilment of sample requests, maintaining sample stocks and/or requesting stock from production or quality as needed
• Liaise with corporate head office and other European sites
• Auditing on behalf of quality team
• General administrative duties

Experience / Education

• Experience of managing raw materials
• Proficient user of MS Office
• Positive, flexible and collaborative approach to work
• Excellent communicator with the ability to build rapport with all stakeholders
• Skilled at prioritising, multi-tasking and coordinating

Benefits:

• Full Training package provided
• Free parking on site
• Life assurance from day one
• Company Pension scheme
• Subsidised canteen
• Maternity and paternity pay scheme
• Christmas vouchers for you and your children
• Long service awards
• Christmas and Easter shutdown

Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as: -

• Money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema, tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more
• A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees
• Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists

Contact Kerry McCormick to discuss this opportunity with ALPLA UK.