Production Planner

Description:

Job Title: Production Planner
Location: Melksham
Salary: £28-32K
Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time onsite

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for the next step in their career, who has experience of Material Planning/Production planning.

The Company

My client is a global manufacturing/engineering company with several locations within the UK and other sites globally. They manufacture precision products, and also supply other products/services to their clients within the rail industry.

The role will report directly into the Production Logistics Manager, and within the role you will be responsible for the production control and planning ensuring that all parts are available for production on a daily basis.

Other duties within the role of Production Planner will be:

Create and maintain production inline with capacity and material restraints.
Update SAP/MRP systems daily with changes.
Liaise with Customer Services to ensure customer requirements are planned
Ensure that customer priority orders are planned and processed correctly to
Attending review meetings with Production.
Proactively lead continuous improvement projects to improve production system efficiencies.

Working hours

The role will involve working a 37 hour week Monday to Friday onsite.

Candidate Specification

The successful candidate will have the following experience:

Previous experience in a Production Planning or Material Control
Experience of working with Material Resource Planning (MRP).
Experience of SAP or similar MRP
Excel intermediate
Ability to read engineeringThe benefits that come with the role are:

Competitive salary package
25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Private Healthcare
Company pensionSuccessful candidates will be contacted within 7 working days of their applications, should you not hear from us within this time, please assume that your application was unsuccessful