Confident, Production Planner/Expeditor immediately required for successful manufacturing company based near Dudley
Working with a production costing between £3-4 million pounds, the role will be reporting directly to the Manufacturing Manager Forecasting, Scheduling, Making Decisions, Planning and Material Control for the business.
Other main duties of the role are:
* Planning and scheduling: Planning and organising the production of a company's products.
* Co-ordination between sales, design / production to ensure customer deliveries are achieved.
* Identifying issues: Detecting and resolving issues as they arise
* Improving processes: Finding ways to improve productivity and reduce costs
* Communicating: Working with other employees and suppliers to ensure the production process runs smoothly
* Reporting: Creating status and performance reports and presenting them to managers
* Complying with regulations: Ensuring compliance with health and safety standards and workplace legislation
* Estimate project needs for manpower, equipment, and raw materials
* Manage project paperwork
* Ensure that correct robust data is recorded onto the MRP system
* Managing material and equipment availability, scheduling production and monitoring the production process for problems
* Responsible for daily upkeep of databases, expediting workloads from the technical office, for on time delivery / issuing.
* Correct planning of the production facility capacities.
* Responsibility for managing the NCR's planning and correct data recording against the correct sales order number.
The right candidate must
* Be an experienced production planner
* Have strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
* Able to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
* Minimum of 2 years supervisory responsibility in a metal working / fabrication shop environment.
* Be able to read technical drawings.
* I.T. literacy is essential, with experience of Microsoft Word / Excel, must be conversant with production scheduling / MRP software