Job vacancy - Senior Production Planner

Position: Senior Production Planner
Reference: acsAseprpl
Location: Littlehampton
Salary: £38,000 - £40,000 per annum
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Job Title: Senior Production Planner

Are you a Production Planner with a minimum of 3 - 5 years of Production planning or Material Management? You must have experience in a manufacturing environment and have experience using SAP. This is a great opportunity to join an established business with a fantastic team of people.

Summary:

You will ensure 100 percent on-time delivery to production as scheduled by the company's committed shipment date. Improves the company's ability to meet customer delivery requirements by understanding BU capacity, identifying constraints, and actively reducing lead times(availability) by product.

Responsibilities:

  • Support to co-ordinate all aspects of production planning, material control, shop floor scheduling and labour capacity planning
  • Prepare and issue shop floor documentation to meet the Production Schedule
  • Works to resolve, labor and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions.
  • Liaise with customers to communicate delays and to resolve any delivery queries
  • Consolidation of various delivery commitments from Cell Leaders and Purchasing into one agreed order schedule, whilst achieving customer satisfaction.
  • Processing Engineering Change Orders, Custom BoM (Bill of Materials) releases and new product Introductions into existing production
  • Provide accurate, timely and concise feedback to keep account reps / operations team members/supply chain in the loop

Requirements:

  • Minimum of three to five years of production planning or material management experience in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
  • Experience in a high mix/low volume, pull-based manufacturing environment.
  • Proven track record of success and growth in positions of increasing responsibility.
  • Previous experience with SAP

ACS are recruiting for a Production Planner. If you feel that you have the skills and experience required in this advertisement to be a Production Planner please submit your CV including an outline of your experience as a Production Planner. It is always a good idea to include a covering letter outlining your experience as a Production Planner with your application as this will enhance your chances of selection and improve your prospects of landing the Production Planner role you desire.