Junior Production Planner
Blackwood, South Wales
Full Time, Permanent
40 hours per week
£35,000 per annum
Benefits include: 23 days holiday + banks, life assurance, pension, welcome bonus, ongoing training & development.
Adeptus are proud to be partnered with a successful and internationally operating FMCG based manufacturer. The business has been certified as a ‘great place to work’ making it the only manufacturer in Wales to be given the certification! Not only a great place to work, but a high technology, modern, challenging environment where you can truly develop professionally.
We are currently looking for a junior production planner to join the team on a full time, permanent basis. This hire will join the existing production planning team and can look forward to long term opportunities within the business.
The Role:
- Create and maintain short and medium term schedules from customer demand and clearly communicate any constraints or other issues to management as required.
- Liaise with other members of the Operations team to formulate and coordinate weekly production plans for manufacturing, considering all material availability, capacity constraints and resource.
- Organising the necessary raw materials in order to meet production demand.
- The presentation of up-to-date plans in daily/weekly Planning meetings, attended by other key departments.
- Monitor the manufacturing output against the production plans and initiate corrective action.
- To be aware of general production and technical constraints.
- Provide data, reports and agreed KPI's to demonstrate the above objectives.
Requirements:
- Degree qualified in a technical field; Mathematics, Engineering, Supply Chain/Procurement or similar. (Essential)
- 1+ years planning experience, ideally in production/manufacturing but all planning backgrounds will be considered. (Essential)
- Working knowledge of SAP (Preferred)