Production Planner

Pertemps are delighted to be recruiting a Production Planner to work for a Blue-Chip company based in Aston.
The main objective will be to manage the daily, weekly and quarterly production schedules to achieve customer deliveries, variable costs and productivity in line with TOC and Daily flex requirements.
This person will be a key driver in development of advanced methods and techniques to meet production goals.

The main duties will be:

o Will agree OPD with Sales based on production plans using DP plan.
o Create Quarterly TOC lines in liaison with Sales using DP plan
o Update sales in a timely manner with recovery plans where appropriate. Generation of burndown plans on delinquencies
o Responsible for material planning process for all materials through the defined manufacturing route to shipment to achieve daily targets on time and in full aligned with the OPD.
o Management of Stubs Inventory and planned production process, ensuring availability providing continuity of support to melt requirements
o Monitoring of material through yields to identify nonstandard yield at stage.
o Allocation of material for new make or linking to independent requirement orders.
o Tracking of base requirement and monitoring of base WTL to ensure delivery to plan.
o Ensuring Work centre load and schedules/WTLs are aligned to optimize Operational performance
o Ensure WTLs or schedules/plans are available lineside in operations.
o Utilise the plant capacity model ensuring any constraints are managed accordingly through optimization of schedules
o Responsible for operational planning to achieve 100% OTAS
o Will support the line walk daily
o Work with operational managers to determine required future staffing levels, load and capacity model.
o Will liaise with Maintenance and Plant Engineers creating the windows to hand over key equipment for the appropriate maintenance, to ensure throughput and equipment effectiveness is not compromised
o Identify SAP master data changes as required to ensure route optimization, timing and costs.
o Must continuously improve planning of material to reduce lead times and improve and optimise WIP inventory and stock levels
o Responsible for inventory management by identifying opportunities to maximise utilization of material, e.g., E&O and including stocktake, working in a cross functional team.

The candidate will have the following skills :

o Demonstrated experience of Production Planning in a manufacturing environment
o Will drive systematic and process driven activities focusing on attention to detail and right first time
o Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels are essential
o Will have experience in reporting, data analysis, effectively turning system data into action orientated information
o Experience preferable in an aerospace manufacturing environment.
o Demonstrable computer skills in SAP, BW Oracle databases and Microsoft Office, Excel, Access
o Analytical
o Strong sense of urgency
o High energy level and able to work flexible hours
o Solid business acumen
o Strong mindset for continuous improvement

In return the company will offer some very good and attractive benefits, we have an order book full up to 2025 so now is a very good time to join our business!