Production Planner

Job Title: Production Planner
Role Purpose
To lead the interface between commercial sales, operations, planning and production to create, modify and manage production schedules.
The Production Planner will schedule all manufacturing work ensuring product is produced in accordance with customers due dates whilst maximising cost effectiveness. Excellent communication skills will be needed to ensure that the  team are provided with timely information that is accurately reflected in the production schedule. The Production Planner will monitor and ensure that inventory levels remain sufficient to meet demands and escalate, and work to resolve, any issues arising.
Main Responsibilities

• Lead a Sales & Operational Planning Team to determine customer demand and forecasts and communicate finished goods availability to the team.
• Monitor and maintain required levels of raw material, packaging and finished goods to meet customer demand and forecast demand.
• Perform forward planning based on customer demand, forecast and minimum stock levels.
• Coordinate and plan production schedules to meet OTIF and KPI targets.
• Coordinate with the Production and Engineering Teams to ensure optimised planning and implementation of engineering changes, PPM's or Capex projects in the process.
• Organise Production Assemblies/Works Orders and process assembly paperwork to completion.
• Track status of production schedules and provide status updates as required.
• Monitor the execution of production plans and resolve any issues
• Monitor material supply flow and identify shortages and bottle necks in usage
• Report on production performance, plan attainment and supply risks/issues.
• Process and produce manufacturing and performance statistics as required

Essential Knowledge

• Advanced used of ERP system
• Capacity planning, Min/Max levels, EOQ, JIT, Works orders, Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Lead Times/Cycle Times, made to order, made to stock.

Desirable Knowledge

• Manufacturing background
• Sage X3 or SAP

Essential Skills

• Proven experience as a Production Planner. (5yrs + experience)
• Good experience of material requirements planning 
• Company events
• Company pension
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Referral programme