Key Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Liaise with Sales & other related Depts to ensure production plan/PTS reflects customer requirements
2. Collaborate with the manufacturing, engineering, and Supplier capacity planners to ensure the availability of materials and resources necessary to meet production plan
3. Monitor production performance and make adjustments to the production schedule as necessary to ensure on-time delivery of vehicles
4. 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
5. Track aged WIP in the factory process against required PTS dates and communicate with production and factory planner where required
6. Planning of factory areas such as Tubs, Trim and Paint
7. Ensure the correct cars are PTS to support Sales targets and car shipping.
8. Develop and maintain production planning tools, including capacity planning models, production schedules.
9. Manage all related production control data to maintain smooth flow & promote continuous improvement
10. Ensure planning systems are accurately maintained.
11. Liaise with Launch Team for the scheduling of Product Development cars within Production schedule.
12. Ensure Working Capital / work in progress is optimised across all manufacturin...