Junior Production Coordinator in Camberley

Background

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.

At Motion Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future.

Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including motorsport and automotive transportation.

We create solutions that drive performance, efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.

Purpose of the Role

To schedule and coordinate the manufacture of high-performance electronic products from release, to manufacturing through to completion, ensuring maximum performance and minimum delay.

You will engage and improve finite capacity scheduling systems, forecast and report where resource capacities are going to become overloaded and understand manufacturing routes whilst working in conjunction with other departments.

Reporting to the Production Planning Team Lead, you will be responsible for liaising with the production, purchasing, sales and project teams to achieve the successful and accurate planning of resource through the production departments.

Role Dimensions

The role will require commitment to deliver on projects during peak periods or as projects demand to ensure key objectives and responsibilities are achieved.

• Principal Accountabilities
• Participates in production planning meetings with team leads
• Review orders and identify component due dates to facilitate the accurate planning process for the deliveries of catalogue products and projects in line with business imperatives and customer requirements.
• Participate in the planning and scheduling for each production department according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times whilst ensuring maximum performance with minimum delay.
• Proactively address potential or actual material shortages with Purchasing to track and improve shortage dates.

Liaise with the production teams to monitor the progress and determine the status of assigned products and projects.

• Manage and communicate stakeholder requirements and resolve issues as they arise.
• Maintain the production and customer schedule, resource planner and other reports as required.
• Update ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to reflect changes to the production schedule.
• Liaise with Stores to prioritise production kit issuing.
• Maintain close relationships with production team leads, and continuously improve the efficiency of planning operations.
• Attend production, project and operations stand-up meetings to report on planning activities.

Due to the above accountabilities this is an on-site role.

• Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
• IT skills, advanced excel capability and reporting skills are an advantage.
• Have a high level of initiative and ability to work independently.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent time management.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Decisiveness.
• Demonstrate a high level of commitment to achieving objectives.
• Multitasking.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Thrives in a fast paced challenging environment.
• Ability to fully contribute to the process of continuous improvements.
• Ability to entrench a collaborative approach to problem solving.
• What we can offer you

In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.

At Motion Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special.

We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change.

We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.

• Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.
• Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.
• Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary
• Opportunity to join the Motion Applied Pension Plan
• Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.
• Ride-to-work with Evans Cycles – take advantage of the Government’s Cycle-to-Work scheme which offers savings of up to 42% on the cost of a new bike, cycling accessories and components.
• Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand-new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme.

Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful competition of their probationary period.

Who we are

Motion Applied are a medium-sized tech firm spun out of Mc Laren Group.

We’re looking for people who will thrive in a non-hierarchical, growth-orientated company, self-starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.

Motion Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do.

Motion Applied are also members of the UK Government Disability Confident Scheme.