Production Planner

Production Planner

Job Location:               Bournemouth

Job Type:                     Permanent

Salary:                         Depending on level of experience

Hours:                          37 hours per week, Monday – Thursday 7.30am to 4pm & Friday 7.30am - 12.30pm

Benefits:                      

• 33 days holiday
• Sick pay
• Enhanced pension (up to 10% of salary)
• Annual pay review
• Life assurance
• Excellent professional and career development
• Modern working environment with excellent facilities

Due to an increase in demand for their products, a well-established manufacturing company is recruiting for a Production Planner to join their busy team.

Founded over 90 years ago, this company have developed & grown every year to where they are now known for the design & manufacture of aerospace components and parts.

As a Production Planner, you will be responsible for scheduling the flow of material throughout the manufacturing processes ensuring optimum efficiency within production while ensuring customer and stocking requirements are covered. You will be also need to react to changing demands and priorities and be able to resolve timing conflicts and constraints.

What you’ll be doing as our Production Planner:

• Oversee all aspects of production planning and control, liaising with the sales and procurement team for effective long-term forecasting with the firming of material requirements and balancing of the workflow as well as forecasting long term scheduling.
• Liaise daily with the Production Managers, Engineering and Supply Chain team on materials and machinery availability, treating these teams as your customer.
• Utilise available planning systems to convert sales forecasts into achievable production and material plans and schedules that optimally balance customer service and operational cost efficiency.
• Participate in the Operations meetings, providing an overview, highlighting any risks relating to the plan.

• Propose and implement continuous improvements in own area
• Working to ensure smooth flow of goods and production.
• Working in a busy supply chain function with the ability to adapt to change.
• Prepare accurate monthly reports for line management.

The skills, knowledge and experience you will need as our Production Planner:

• Proven experience in a Production Planning role
  • Effective communication and coordination
  • Knowledge of ERP or CRM systems
  • Analytics, demand forecasting and production scheduling
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Experience from a fast-paced Manufacturing environment

• Good knowledge of using excel

We are looking to hear from applicants who have the following personal attributes:

• • Self-motivated
  • Innovation – new approaches
  • Strong decision making
  • Result orientated approach
  • Flexibility/adaptability
  • Client focused and commercial
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please either contact our Recruitment Team on (phone number removed) or send your CV.

Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so If you do not hear from us within 3 days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.

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