Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Liaise with Sales & other related Depts to ensure production plan/PTS reflects customer requirements
• Collaborate with the manufacturing, engineering, and Supplier capacity planners to ensure the availability of materials and resources necessary to meet production plan
• Monitor production performance and make adjustments to the production schedule as necessary to ensure on-time delivery of vehicles
• Allocate customer orders into vehicle 'slots' in the production schedule - ensure delivery dates are met, supply lead times respected, production constraints are not broken and level demand where possible. Analyse demand patterns and production constraints
• Track aged WIP in the factory process against required PTS dates and communicate with production and factory planner where required
• Planning of factory areas such as Tubs, Trim and Paint
• Ensure the correct cars are PTS to support Sales targets and car shipping.
• Develop and maintain production planning tools, including capacity planning models, production schedules.
• Manage all related production control data to maintain smooth flow & promote continuous improvement
• Ensure planning systems are accurately maintained.
• Liaise with Launch Team for the scheduling of Product Development cars within Production schedule.
• Ensure Working Capital / work in progress is optimised across all manufacturing facilities.
• Support in the creation and manage key metric dashboards for use by the business to manage throughput targets and constraints tracking.
• Lead improvement activities and drive to improve KPI's.
• Reflect learnings to New Model scheduling to improve Launch activity.
• Support / lead any other related tasks to maintain or improve production scheduling & execution.

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience in vehicle or production planning, ideally in the automotive industry (production).
• Ability to communicate with tact and diplomacy, together with the ability to work accurately and efficiently, taking resourceful action during periods of considerable pressure.
• Understanding of S/OP process
• The ability to create & use business intelligence tools such as Power BI / SSRS / Domo / Birst including writing SQL queries would be preferable.
• Degree or Higher diploma qualified or equivalent preferable.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate across all levels of the business
• Experience using an ERP system in a Planning role
• Proficiency in data analysis tools such as Excel or Tableau
• Bachelor's degree in Business or STEM subject

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