Production Planner

**Production Planner**
**Rugby **
**£41,000**
**Hours - Monday and Fridays 08:00am - 15:30pm**
**Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 08:00am - 16:00pm**
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**Purpose of the role**
Optimizes the effective utilization of the manufacturing facility. Daily update of all relevant production and Logistics reports. Departmental support when needed.
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Produces reports as required including, inventories and held raw materials.
* Daily planning activities as preparing weekly production plan, coordinating the forecast input and initial sequencing.
* Manage the production plan and arrange raw material supply for plan: projects / customer approvals / maintenance / trials etc.
* Checks that all graphics requirements and production formats are approved and in place to meet the production plan for cans.
* Establish an optimum production plan which meets the requirements and optimises the effective running of the manufacturing operation.
* Adapt the production plan to accommodate extraordinary circumstances e.g. shutdowns, quality issues, down-time etc.
* Proactively communicate planning problems to all relevant parties.
* Using SAP to set up new labels and maintain master data.
* Responsible for Alu coil data, booking onto SAP, calling into plant, weekly and month end counts.
* Dealing with Logistics and Transport queries and solving queries.
**Skills**
* Microsoft packages and SAP
* At least 3 years in a Production planning role