Production Planner - South West, United Kingdom - Cloud Nine Recruitment Group

Cloud Nine Recruitment Group

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South West, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Reference #:
VAC10960

Location:
South West

Salary:
£ £35000

Sector:
Packaging

Type:
Permanent

Posted On: 25/05/2023

Contact:
Yvonne Redhead

Main Responsibilities

Using SAP manage day to day planning and capacity, such as pallets, paper inputs and other consumables.
Work with sales to provide paper purchasing and develop exact paper forecasts.
Ensure capacity and planning are applied in the most effective way by creating, executing and managing a system.
Using OMP measure production hours and capacity forecast to ensure sales orders and production hours harmonise.
Build excellent customer relations with regard to supply chain issues.
Manage bought in board and agree subcontract partners.
Anticipate and resolve potential material shortages.
Optimise and balance customer service, waste and production output by ensuring work orders are scheduled.
Work closely with colleagues in operations to reach agreement and improve production hours to ensure sales forecasts are met.
Set up key suppliers on specified types of work by creating and improving the subcontract process.
Reporting to the Operations Director ensure all potential new customers fit the criteria for acceptance.
Examine the best fit between board grades and capacity run on a regular basis, to include deckle analysis.
Strategically manage stock, production budgets and balancing sales in conjunction with Sales Director and Operations.
Agree improvements for efficiently managing how and when runners and repeaters are ran to ensure targets are met.
Be active in the decisionmaking process for when the push and pull strategy should be utilised in capacity and planning.
Provide a strong communication network between all departments and customers.
Manage stock levels.
Manage customer demand by using capacity while maximizing on profitability and production.
Actively effect situations to ensure optimal capacity is managed regularly.
Deliver excellent customer service that benefits both the customer and the company.
Ensure capacity stays in line by responding to Management of Bin C.
Ensure orders waiting for production are planned within agreed lead time and according to capacity.
Create and produce reports to further understand current trends.

The Person

You will have at least 2 years' experience in production planning.
Ideally you will have experience working in the packaging industry.
You must be fluent in SAP.
You will be a creative thinker in your presentation of information and of new ways of analysing ordering trends of customers.
You will have the ability to challenge and develop new methods of improving capacity and efficiency in operations.
You will be technically minded and have the ability to interpret customer needs and ensure these are met.
You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to present recommendations to management confidently.
You will be organised and able to prioritise your workload.
You will be a good at judging situations and confident to take necessary action in order to implement change.

Remuneration
You will receive an attractive salary between £30k and £35k DOE.

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