Materials Planner

Locations:

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Salary:

£32000 per annum

Description

Role: Materials Planner

Location: Wellingborough

Hours Of Work: Monday-Thursday 8am-4:30pm, Friday 8am-1:30pm (Flexibility required)

Basic Salary: £32,000 per annum.

Additional Benefits: Free parking, Healthcare Cover, Company Pension and Death In Service.

Are you an experienced and confident customer focused Materials Planner, who enjoys problem solving and continuous improvement? Then look no further! We may have your next opportunity, see below for details.

Job Purpose:

• Delivery of a customer-focused service, whilst meeting all Health & Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Morale targets.
• To ensure the right material and consumables arrive at the right time, before the point of assembly fit / despatch.
• To work within the framework provided to reduce & challenge inventory levels and ensure no obsolete stock when introducing engineering changes.
• To work proactively within a culture of problem solving and continuous improvement, to drive Hendrickson forward.

Job Responsibilities:

• Effective analysis of customer demand, MRP management and order placement (Purchase Orders / Schedules) on the supply base, in order to meet customer requirements, whilst maintaining profitability
• Ensure effective expediting of raw materials, components and sub-contract operations from designated vendors, to ensure on-time delivery to customers
• Monitor inventory levels against agreed target levels. Proactively Escalate issues and concerns to management
• Identification & communication of supply shortfalls and ensure mitigation is in place to minimise effects on manufacturing
• Liaise with other personnel across the Hendrickson group as necessary to ensure the successful production and transportation of goods whilst ensuring contractual obligations are fulfilled
• To process all stock and non-stock purchase orders in accordance with departmental procedures, ensuring all orders are properly authorised and are entered against correct GL codes. All purchase orders requiring allocations to be processed correctly
• To process discreet orders in a timely manner and to manage customer schedules in accordance with departmental procedures and work instructions
• Effective management of transport costs
• Identify, monitor & resolve process gaps
• Manage, monitor and provide solutions for the Excess Material process
• To support customer run-down and other obsolescence control initiatives
• To support business initiatives to reduce and control costs generated by the materials function
• Monitor the operational performance of the customs brokers / Freight Forwarders
• Provide up-to-date analysis and reports illustrating Supplier and business performance and forecasts to support business initiatives
• Use problem-solving tools & techniques to Investigate causes of deviation from process
• Carry out reasonable additional responsibilities as requested by the Company

Key Skills Required:

Essential:

• Extensive experience in a Material control role
• Good understanding of MRP and other material planning systems
• Project management skills, including the ability to produce and work to timing plans
• Understanding of modern material control processes
• Excellent analytical skills
• Well organised, with excellent communication skills
• Be able to take responsibility for resolution of issues
• Be self-motivated and results-oriented
• Possess good analytical skills and have the ability to think creatively
• Be able to work under pressure and to time constraints, and use own initiative to solve problems

Desirable:

• HND or equivalent
• Knowledge of Oracle based management system preferred but can be given training

If you have the relevant experience our client is looking for in this Materials Planner role, we would like to hear from you.

Impact Recruitment is an employment agency working on behalf of our client.