Scheduling Assistant - Whitstable, United Kingdom - Trapeze Recruitment Services Limited

Trapeze Recruitment Services Limited

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Whitstable, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Summary
Working for a global manufacturing business you will be responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring production schedules.

Role and Responsibilities

Develop planning tools to assist in the creation of work schedules
Maintain the production schedules to match the order book and internal demands
Maximise production schedules to achieve improvements in production efficiency
Build short term capacity, resource, and materials plans
Maintenance of capacity planning tools across site, to reduce manufacturing leadtimes and ongoing cost reduction.
Expedite production schedules where required to meet customer demands.
Provide information to sales function to ensure awareness of any deviation to agreed schedules.
To create manufacturing paperwork for production where required
Monitor bookings daily and report anomalies.
Use capacity planning tools to highlight areas of concern in labour and machinery bottlenecks.
Improve capacity of planning
Work to eliminate and prevent waste at all stages of the production process.
Report to the Production Planner any issues which impact on the ability of manufacturing to achieve the plan
Highly numerate and have a thorough proven understanding of planning within a manufacturing environment
IT literate and have good ERP/MRP knowledge and experience
Excellent organisational and communication skills
Good problemsolving skills
Experience in planning and work schedules
A structured approach to working within the areas of responsibility