At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage daily production planning and control across multiple manufacturing areas.
- Company: Join a dynamic manufacturing company focused on innovation and efficiency.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth opportunities, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Work with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Be at the heart of production, ensuring seamless flow and high delivery standards.
- Qualifications: Experience in production planning and strong SAP/ERP skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Production Planner / Production Controller
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced
Production Planner / Production Controller to manage daily production planning and control across multiple manufacturing areas, including
New Parts, Repaired Parts, Assembly and Testing .
The role will be responsible for coordinating production schedules, materials, inventory, capacity and subcontractor activity to ensure seamless production flow and consistently high on-time delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage daily production planning and output across multiple operational areas and production cells.
- Develop and maintain accurate production schedules using
SAP/ERP and APS systems .
- Coordinate material requirements, repair routings, assembly sequences and testing processes.
- Monitor production performance against committed schedules and proactively resolve delivery risks.
- Optimise individual cell inventory and work-centre capacity to maximise resource utilisation.
- Manage subcontractor expediting, capacity and delivery performance.
- Maintain accurate production, inventory and supply-chain data across relevant digital systems.
- Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, Material Control, Purchasing, Shipping and Warehouse teams.
- Lead and participate in cross-functional meetings, communicating priorities and driving actions to completion.
- Identify and resolve complex issues relating to manning, machinery, materials and processes .
- Support continuous improvement of production planning processes and digital systems integration.
- Key Requirements
- Proven experience in production planning, production control, material planning or manufacturing operations .
- Strong experience with
SAP/ERP production order systems and ideally APS planning tools.
- Advanced knowledge of material scheduling, expediting, production control and inventory management .
- Experience managing complex manufacturing processes, production routings and multi-stage operations.
- Experience managing subcontractors and external manufacturing resources.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple operational areas and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Ideal Candidate
- The ideal candidate will be an experienced
Production Planner, Production Controller, Material Planner or Manufacturing Planner who has worked within a complex manufacturing environment.
They will be highly analytical, commercially aware and confident using SAP/ERP systems, with a proven ability to coordinate multiple production streams, optimise inventory and capacity, resolve operational issues and consistently deliver against demanding production schedules.
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