Role: Materials & Planning Specialist
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Gloucester GL3 4AQ
Rate: £16.50 PAYE
Role Summary
The Materials and Planning specialist will be responsible for maintaining the Master Production Schedule, communicating the production plan to Operations, and proactively raising potential supply & capacity issues. Working closely with Operations & Sourcing team to problem solve and ensure execution of the business output plan and deliver on time to our customers. Ensuring ERP system integrity is maintained and using data from multiple digital tools to make decisions & prioritise problem solving.
Essential Responsibilities
Maintain and manage master production schedule to cover all demands, whilst minimising inventory.
Maintain and update Item Master within ERP system.
Work with commercial teams to understand demand signal feeding into ERP system.
Create and maintain Capacity Models, by work centre, that can be used by the Materials & Operations teams.
Responsible for proactively raising material & capacity issues, to mitigate impact to production plan.
Use data to create reports, summarising key KPI's, Production Status updates, Shortages and more, for all levels of the business.
Work closely with Operations teams to execute on production plan.
Problem solves with multiple functions to execute on production plan, as well as drive continuous improvement projects.
Implement engineering changes as they are released...