Production Planner
Production Planner
Inspire Resourcing have an opportunity available for a Production Planner. This role is due to continued growth and requires someone to understand engineering process/manufacturing.- Understand production capacity
- Agree orders lead-times with the sales team
- Produce daily/weekly / Monthly master production schedule for the Operations Team
- Monitor delivery to customer lead times and maximise production capacity in the most efficient way
- Liaise with Sales / Operations daily
- Communicate with sales and production teams to produce production plans and manage adherence to these, advising senior management of any deviations
- Highlight production plan deviations to understand root causes and implement improvements or corrective actions
- Monitor and validate production routings and standard process times to calculate true production capacity
- Collate and input production data into MRP system ensuring data accuracy and integrity
- Positively challenge assumptions about production capability using data
- Working with forecasted demand anticipate and communicate possible future bottlenecks
- Understand machine reliability and off-line maintenance and its possible impact on future capacity
- Identify areas of agility in the plan to address any ‘specials’ or re-work requirements and communicate to the sales and customer teams
- Research and explore MRP full functionality, introducing modules/unused functions to the business which are appropriate for effective planning in the company environment
- Develop an understanding of production routes and processes across the product mix to increase ability to plan effectively
- Run production meetings to present information and data on plan adherence and any changes to the plan, ensuring that Production Manager / Supervisors fully understand the expectation
- Previous experience in a Production planning role in a high mix, multi process, medium volume manufacturing/engineering environment
- Deep understanding and use of a range of MRP systems
- Data capture, interrogation and analysis in a complex production environment
- Experience of challenging and questioning experienced production team
- Making decisions using data
- Excellent IT skills and experience, especially Excel
- Excellent written and oral communication, able to present to board and convey production plans to production teams
- Strength of character and confident in decision making
- Emotionally intelligent
- Analytical mindset able to spot trends in large volumes of data
- Able to embrace and encourage change
- Positive outlook
