Senior Production Planner
Location
Worcestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
Senior Production Planner
Lye, Stourbridge
£27,000 - £30,000
Monday to Friday 7am – 4pm, Friday 7am – 1pm
Overview
As a Production Planner, you will be a crucial member of the manufacturing team, responsible for optimising the production process to ensure timely and efficient delivery of products. Your role involves strategic planning, coordination, and continuous monitoring of production schedules to meet customer demands while maintaining optimal inventory levels.
Responsibilities
- Liaise with Planning Manager to determine customer requirements, forecasts, and give lead times for potential upcoming projects.
- Accurately predict how long each job/project will take to complete and be able to give accurate breakdowns for each department with the requirements needed.
- Attend daily production meetings and prepare reports about production processes with Management including suggestions of ways to improve efficiency.
- Monitor each job/projects progress through the relevant departments to ensure it is following the schedule and will inevitably hit OTIF.
- Collect and assess data for the planning department and the production team’s performance on a daily and monthly basis and report this in production meetings.
- Assess stock holding monthly to ensure customer orders are fully covered
- Apply lean manufacturing where possible.
- Identify errors and eliminate root cause using robust countermeasures
- Sustain the corrective actions to eliminate repeat issues
- Excellent Communication Skills and ability to build strong working relationships
Requirements
- Demonstratable manufacturing planning experience
- Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
- Sage 200
- Trello
- Ability to troubleshoot
- Excellent management
- Excellent communicator
- Highly organised with an eye for detail
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