Scheduling Assistant - Whitstable, United Kingdom - Cordius Ltd
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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