Confident, Production Planner/Expeditor immediately required for successful manufacturing company based near Dudley
Working with a production costing between £3-4 million pounds, the role will be reporting directly to the Manufacturing Manager Forecasting, Scheduling, Making Decisions, Planning and Material Control for the business.
Other main duties of the role are:
- Planning and scheduling: Planning and organising the production of a company's products.
- Co-ordination between sales, design / production to ensure customer deliveries are achieved.
- Identifying issues: Detecting and resolving issues as they arise
- Improving processes: Finding ways to improve productivity and reduce costs
- Communicating: Working with other employees and suppliers to ensure the production process runs smoothly
- Reporting: Creating status and performance reports and presenting them to managers
- Complying with regulations: Ensuring compliance with health and safety standards and workplace legislation
- Estimate project needs for manpower, equipment, and raw materials
- Manage project paperwork
- Ensure that correct robust data is recorded onto the MRP system
- Managing material and equipment availability, scheduling production and monitoring the production process for problems
- Responsible for daily upkeep of databases, expediting workloads from the technical office, for on time delivery / issuing.
- Correct planning of the production facility capacities.
- Responsibility for managing the NCR s planning and correct data recording against the correct sales order number.
The right candidate must
- Be an experienced production planner
- Have strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Minimum of 2 years supervisory responsibility in a metal working / fabrication shop environment.
- Be able to read technical drawings.
- I.T. literacy is essential, with experience of Microsoft Word / Excel, must be conversant with production scheduling / MRP software.