Materials Planning Manager
Location
Flintshire, Wales | United Kingdom
Job description
Recruit4staff is proud to be representing their client, a leading Aerospace company in their search for a Materials Planning Managerto join their Deeside based manufacturing site.
For the successful Materials Planning Manager our client is offering;
- Salary negotiable depending on experience
- Flexible Shift patterns (5 day week / 4 Day weeks shift patterns)
- Permanent Position
- Standard holidays at (25 days + bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell a week
- Pension contribution of up to 6%
The Role - Materials Planning Manager:
- Responsible for providing leadership to the planning and commercial team. Strong management skills are required to lead, coach, mentor, and develop the team, ensuring efficiency and collaboration.
- Leads the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process. Incorporating all supporting functions and presents the executive overview to the senior leadership team.
- Responsible for overseeing the coordination of all manufacturing order creation to the shop through analysis of Sales Order requirements
- Develop requirements and standards to ensure business goals and performance metrics are attained through a cohesive standard of work.
- Work closely with Operations, Production, MRO and Engineering to establish true capacity plans based on demands vs resource availability
- Monitors throughput and adherence to plan. Reports on recovery and constraints.
- Strives to enable the team to fully utilize the ERP system to full functionality. Developing reporting mechanisms and standardizing across the team/group where possible.
- Develops a best practice sharing mentality between the team. Reaching out to sister sites and adopting a continuous improvement attitude.
- Analyse inventory levels for purchased and manufactured goods. Monitors and manages material inventories, tracks progress of production, and reviews factors which affect schedules
- Ensures coordination with Operations Managers to make any adjustments to production schedules daily/weekly as needed to meet business and customer needs. Communicates demand information across the facility so that everyone is aware of volume and metrics.
- Reviews orderbook changes and challenges any changes in the demand profile with the relevant customers.
- Complies with all company policies and procedures, including safety requirements.
- Fosters positive relationship with internal and external customers
What our client is looking for in a Materials Planning Manager:- Degree in Operations, Business, Supply Chain or related field preferred or equivalent experience.- ESSENTIAL
- At least 5 years’ experience working within a planning and/or customer facing role -ESSENTIAL
- At least 2-3 years management experience, preferably within an aerospace manufacturer -ESSENTIAL
- Strong leadership skills to overcome challenges and achieve results.
- This position requires mathematical ability and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong MS office and ERP system understanding.
Key skills or similar job titles; Electrical design engineer, Graduate design engineer, Graduate electrical engineer.
Commutable From: Deeside / Chester/ Flint / Holywell / Ellesmere Port / Mold / Rhyl / Broughton / Wrexham
This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Recruit4staff (Wrexham) who are operating as a recruitment agency, agent, agencies, employment agency or employment business.
Job Reference: opp-20148
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