Our client, a leading manufacturer in North West Manchester are looking to recruit an Production Planner to join the business on an Ongoing Temporary. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in Production Planning in a manufacture to order environment. Candidates will be required to coordinate the issue and receipt of all manufacturing paperwork to the planned schedule to achieve OTD.
Candidates will ideally have experience working within a Manufacturing Engineering/ Assembly based environment - Experience with Valves/ Pumps/ Gearboxes/ Oil and Gas Manufacturing would be advantageous.
Experience working with MRP Systems, ideally SAP would also be highly advantageous. Strong excel Skills would also be ideal including VLookups
Hours - Monday - Friday 7AM - 3PM
This role is available for an immediate start.
Responsibilities
* Coordinate the issue and receipt of all manufacturing paperwork to the planned schedule to achieve customer RDSL
* Capture root cause for failure to achieve customer RDSL & leadtime.
* Highlight any past due customer orders and escalate through the appropriate channels to completion.
* Prepare daily MRP reports aligned with weekly/monthly forecasting.
* Action all MRP exception messages including rescheduling, cancellations and quantity amendments.
* Plan capacity against workload, highlighting any issues to the Value Stream Manager.
* Report daily KPIs against Production Plans including kitting, quality release and ...