Focused Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of our client for a Senior Production Planner to join their manufacturing facility based within the Caerphilly area.
Hours of work include:
Days Regular: Monday - Thursday 08:00am - 16:30pm. Early finishes on Fridays of 13:00pm.
Duties of the role include:
- Create weekly production plans and schedules to keep things running smoothly. Ensure BOM is accurate and report any issues, raising a CRF when necessary.
- Plan and prioritize operations to meet customer OTIF (On-Time In-Full) and OTD (On-Time Delivery). Track daily progress and update the team during the Daily Production Meeting.
- Work closely with customer service, sales, suppliers, warehouse, and production teams.
- Attend daily planning meetings to check if production is following the plan and report any problems.
- Notify the right departments of any changes to the production schedule in a timely manner.
- Use SAP B1 and MRP to plan material needs, checking with suppliers to ensure materials are delivered on time.
- Keep track of deliveries from suppliers and make sure they are on time.
- Monitor progress of New Product Introduction (NPI) projects to make sure they stay on schedule.
- Solve problems that could delay production and minimize downtime.
- Track scrap and material losses during production and evaluate their impact on raw material availability.
- Raise and close production orders in the SAP system, making sure it's up-to-date
Desired Criteria:
- Previous experience of production planning within the manufacturing environment is desirable.
- Experience of MPS/MRP/ERP, Microsoft packages and power
- Confident in the use of data spread sheets, MS excel, lookups, MS project
- Forecasting and Bill of materials management
- 3-5 years' experience as a production planner or in a production environment
- Ideally from General Metal Fabrication, Automotive or Aviation Industry
- Knowledge of ERP systems (Sap-B1) and from an engineering background
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Focused Recruitment are a multi award winning independent recruitment agency covering South Wales and the South West. As a service driven company we are fully committed to working with clients and candidates that share this value. We consistently place the right people, into the right companies, with the right roles to fulfil their career aspirations.