Production Planner

Production Planner

Full Time OFFICE BASED Onsite – Rainham, Kent

c£26,000 + Bonus

Benefits:

• Performance and business related bonus – depending on business success
• 5 weeks holiday per year, plus all public holidays
• Pension scheme of up to 5% company contribution
• Private Healthcare Scheme
• Employee Assistant Healthcare. (Smart health app & helpline).
• Employee discounted goods & voucher schemes.

The outline

If you are a detail oriented Administrator who has experience of managing large data sets or high volume stock records then this could be the role for you.

Reporting to the Head of Operations, the Production Planner holds a critical position within a busy office based supply chain department, your meticulous eye for detail, confident communication skills and ability to remain focused will guarantee that customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders are supported effectively. There are seasonal demands in this role along with deadlines and lots of ‘to-ing’ and ‘fro-ing’ with internal and external contacts, therefore being able to manage priorities is important.

Responsibility outline:

• Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products
• Plan and prioritise operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay.
• Determine raw materials needed to cover production demand - components from UK and Far East suppliers.
• Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time - liaising with the Production team based in Cambridgeshire
• Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption.
• Prepare and submit status and performance reports.
• Maintain accurate inventory of materials needed to complete production on SAP and Excel
• Ability to resolve to understand the cause of system and process failures & to act to prevent any recurrence
• Maintain inventory of materials needed to complete production, get regular updates from colleagues on UK & Far East supplier production to ensure up to date information to plan efficient UK production, highlight timing issues to colleagues around the business where necessary.
• Identifying any delays in the arrival of goods and notifying relevant contacts such as internal Production Planners, the external 3pl Packing company, shipping brokers and client contacts.
• Carry out analysis in Excel to deliver reports to clients and the senior leadership team – you will need to have intermediate Excel skills
• Monitor the overseas production processes, suggest improvements & adjust schedules as needed to ensure customer expectations are met.
• Chase UK & FE suppliers for delivery dates, negotiating on improved dates where necessary.

My client business design, manufacture (in China & UK), sell and distribute products (c 6million units) to retailer across the UK along with having an online store. Your role as Production Planner sits at the heart of the business, coordinating all activity from when the product leaves China until it is delivered to the client.

2 stage interview – 1st stage via MS Teams, 2nd face to face in Rainham.

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