Scheduling Assistant - Whitstable, United Kingdom - Cordius Ltd

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Description
Cordius are working with a market leader in the Aerospace and Military industries based in Whitstable, Kent.

They are a leading global interconnect Fortune 500 specialist company, who are continuing to grow and significantly invest in the future.

They are looking for a Scheduling Assistant to provide support to the business.


Hours / Shift Pattern
Monday to Thursday 8am to 4.30pm and Friday 8am to 1.30pm


Purpose of the role

The operations team require a scheduling assistant with the skills and competency to be responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring production schedules.


Duties and responsibilities

  • Develop planning tools to assist in the creation of work schedules, maintain the production schedules to match our order book and internal demands.
  • Maximise production schedules to achieve improvements in production efficiency
  • Build short term capacity, resource, and materials plans
  • Actively strive to achieve site KPI's
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Ensure that all employees, contractors, and visitors comply with Martec's Health & Safety Policy use Health and Safety equipment provided.

Experience

  • Experience in related fields such as Production Planning and/or Logistics or equivalent experience within a Manufacturing environment

Benefits

  • Company pension scheme with up to 6% contribution
  • Life assurance and income protection

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