Supply Planner - Whitstable, United Kingdom - Trapeze Recruitment Services Limited
Description
Company Profile
Working for a market leading manufacturing business with over 270 employees on site, they are poised for further growth and investment and seeking an experienced Supply Planner to join the Planning team for a fixed term of 15 months.
Job Summary
The successful applicant will co-ordinate internal and external supply, to plan and achieve forecast, with customer requirements as priority throughout.
Role and Responsibilities
- Develops Production Plans that meet customer requirements and are in line with production capacity.
- Liaises cross functionally with all areas of Operations as required to maintain an accurate Production Plan.
- Supports the Planning Manager with the preparation of Production Plan Risk Analysis, Capacity Analysis and Planning Measures.
- Actions customer Defer & Expedite requests, where possible.
- Proactively liaises directly with the Customer Services team to feedback any changes to the Production Plan that may impact customer delivery.
- Publishes customer open order book schedules as requested.
- Attends and contributes to all relevant Planning / Operations meetings as required.
- Maintains and updates MAPICS data to ensure current accurate information is available to the wider business.
- Provides updates and recommendations to relevant business leaders on safety stock levels, resource requirements, schedule amendments as appropriate.
- Releases production work orders to manufacturing.
- Creates and issues open order books to vendors, analyses and challenges responses.
- Reviews and keys vendor acknowledgements into MAPICS
- Carry out such other duties that may be reasonably requested.
- GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths Grade C or above
- Production Planning / Scheduling experience within a manufacturing environment
- Experience preparing production plans against capacity hours, as well as exporting and analysing data
- Experience working with high volume part numbers and orders
- Use of an MRP production planning system, ideally MAPICS
- Good understanding of planning process requirements
- Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge and experience, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, etc
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Confident problem solver, who is able to facilitate change
Remuneration & Benefits
- Competitive hourly pay and shift premium
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Life Assurance
- 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays
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