Manufacturing Planner

Bring your practical MRP experience and step into an exciting Manufacturing Planner role where delivery performance, smarter planning, and hands-on coaching all matter. This Manufacturing Planner opportunity is perfect if you enjoy getting close to real production, turning data into action, and helping a team embed planning excellence while supporting an ERP move. If you want a role that blends operational planning, system-led improvement, and development impact, this Manufacturing Planner job is one to get enthusiastic about.

What You Will Do:

• Run and manage MRP in NetSuite, translating sales orders and forecasts into clear material and production requirements for the manufacturing cycle.
• Create, release, and manage work orders and production schedules across machining and finishing operations, keeping output on track.
• Plan raw material requirements and raise purchase requisitions or orders in line with lead times and approval limits, reducing shortages and excess stock.
• Coordinate subcontract operations such as plating, heat treatment, and coating, so dependencies don't derail customer delivery dates.
• Maintain accurate planning data in NetSuite, including bills of materials, routings, lead times, reorder points, and safety stock.
• Coach the Production Planning Manager in MRP principles and practice, producing user guides and supporting live planning until responsibility is fully owned in-house.

What You Will Bring:

• Strong, practical experience of MRP-driven material and production planning in a manufacturing environment, ideally within precision engineering, machining, or component production.
• Proven experience training or coaching others in MRP and planning processes, with confidence in translating system outputs into decisions.
• Solid understanding of capacity planning, lead times, and inventory control, plus the ability to balance priorities when demand and materials conflict.
• NetSuite experience across MRP/supply planning and work orders is a strong advantage, and any ERP migration exposure is highly valuable.
• Excellent Excel skills for analysis and reporting, alongside the ability to manage competing priorities independently.

This Manufacturing Planner role helps the business deliver customer orders on time by strengthening planning accuracy, improving schedule adherence, and keeping inventory at the right levels. It also directly supports continuous operational improvement, including the move from Winman to NetSuite, helping the team adopt reliable planning workflows and maintain accurate master data.

Location:

Based in the UK, with a predominantly office-based role plus regular visits to the shop floor to collaborate with production.

Interested?

If Manufacturing Planner sounds like the next step you've been waiting for, take the lead in turning MRP into measurable manufacturing results.