Senior Production Planner

A great opportunity has arisen for a Production Planner to join a leading manufacturer who supply solutions to the oil & gas and offshore industry.

Job Description:

• Day-to-day responsibility for the Planning team and their development
• Work with management team to support strategic and operations planning
• Creates and maintains a clear lines of communication with Team Leaders, Production Managers, Project Manager, Sales and Buying teams daily
• Direct ALL Master Scheduling activity, incorporating Forecasts into Master Production Schedules
• Generate and update daily, weekly and monthly production status reports
• Performs any necessary support functions as required by procurement process
• Manage all related MRP maintenance, including resolving problems with Engineering and Receiving and Inspection as necessary
• Proper and timely implementation of change orders
• Maintain optimal inventory levels through the active use of MRP and the maintenance of all required parameters including assembly lead times, days’ supply, EOQ, for all assemblies
• Active support of R&D and new product activities
• Analyse data to update staff schedules (Capacity) to reach the agreed quota in the manufacturing process
• Monitor inventory levels and actively trial kit, whilst reviewing Minimum stock order levels and order increments
• Regularly provide production status updates to senior team whilst implementing and maintaining planning visual management tools
• Facilitate the timely delivery of products to customers, maintain OTIF expectation
• Closely monitor the production process to ensure that production orders are completed on time and within budget.
• MRP maintenance of timings and routings
• Support the continuous improvement drive throughout the business
• The creation and maintenance of KPI’s
• Other duties as assigned.

Beneficial Skills / Qualifications:

• Educated in a technical or business management field
• Technical training in project management advantageous
• Proven competency in manufacturing resource planning / materials requirements planning
• Prior manufacturing experience
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
• MRP system functionality
• Microsoft Excel to advanced standard ideally: (pivot tables, vlookups advantageous)
• Production planning processes
• Outstanding communication skills
• Exceptional organisational and motivational skills
• Ability to work within a team
• Must be computer literate
• Production processes within an engineering business preferred
• MRP / ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics Navision most advantageous)
• Prior manufacturing experience
• 5 years of experience of manufacturing resource planning / materials requirements planning
• 5 years of Leadership experience
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and technical communications
• Maintain behaviour in compliance with HSE requirements.
• Maintain responsibility and accountability through personal commitment and behaviour.
• Report any unsafe or environmentally unsound acts and conditions to their immediate Supervisor such that remedial action can be taken to manage the risk.