Carbon60 are proud to be partnering with Lufthansa Technik Landing Gear Services to recruit for a Material Planner (Stores) within the Production Control department. Lufthansa Technik are a global leading provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for the civil aviation industry.
This Material Planner position is on a permanent basis and has become available due to continued growth and expansion. The purpose of this role is to ensure that the supply of materials meet the production schedule to ensure operational and production continuity.
The ability to deliver efficient and flexible solutions to meet production targets.
Maintain strong relationships with all departments to ensure supply of materials meets requirements.
Role Responsibilities will include:
Provide and maintain the schedule for the supply of externally provided ' materials to meet production requirements, based on the master schedule
Day to day Work Order materials management. This includes sourcing internally from stock or as required informing purchasing of requirements, Oversight of management of picks from stores and
Input to sourcing decisions from other live work Orders.
Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions and ensure that stock processes are set to be consistent with the production plan requirements
Understand, highlight and assess areas of materials risk, to minimise impact on production schedule and the delivery of the plan
Ensure actions are in place and controlled, for all parts of the materials supply process. This applies to both holding purchasing and production (where required) to account
Utilise any material requirements planning system (MRP/ERP) or IT system that is in place and ensure that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required.
Monitor the integrity of bill of materials (BOM) and provide feedback to stores on inventory accuracy.
Continually Plan, develop, implement and evaluate processes for material issue to 'production point of use'.
Monitor inventory levels against agreed target levels and aid logistics in setting safety stocks, based on the production output requirements.Skills and Experience required:
Experience in Material planning
Experience within the aviation industry
Proven use of advanced interaction with ERP system
SAP Knowledge
Competent in Microsoft Office application
Knowledge of BoM, Route and fundamental production planning concepts (forward and backward scheduling / MRP)
Understanding of LEAN / JIT / Process improvement techniques, ideally with some practical implementation experience.Why Lufthansa Technik Landing Gear Services? Here are some of their benefits and rewards:
Competitive Salary Package
Discretionary Bonus Scheme
Discounted Flight Benefits
Reduced Gym memberships Retail and Hotel Discounts
Seasonal Company EventsDouble day shifts - Monday to Friday one week 6am to 2pm and one week 2pm to 10pm rotating weekly.
From £25,627.17 salary
If you are interested in the role and want some more information, please contact Becky on (phone number removed) or email
Interviews are being held shortly.
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