Our client, a leading manufacturing business are currently recruiting for an experienced Supply Chain professional to join them as a Supply Chain Planner on a permanent basis.

They are seeking an individual to coordinate and manage Production Scheduling and material availability to ensure customer requirements are met efficiently. This will be through daily liaison with Planning and Production departments to control output within scheduled plans.

Responsibilities

• Sign off material availability for Jobs.
• Call off product from external storage in line with schedule requirements taking into consideration storage space and availability on site.
• Communicate where necessary any issues and collaborate with relevant stakeholders where appropriate to find solutions.
• Maintain WIP at an appropriate level to support production efficiencies.
• Establish weekly manning requirements by asset and assist Operations with most efficient way of allocating labour to each resource.
• Data analysis including Schedule Adherence, Master Data accuracy (run and set up times) Involvement in development of Planning tool for Oracle implementation.
• Attend daily planning and production meetings, and weekly manning meetings and communicate any issues to key site stakeholders.

Requirements

• Excellent computer skills with experience in Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Customer focussed and results driven.
• Previous experience of an ERP system (Oracle, SAP etc).

Person spec

• Must have strong initiative and enthusiasm.
• Analytical, with a keen eye for detail with good problem-solving ability.
• Able to get the task done, with a flexible approach.
• Must be an excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now.

Start People ltd is acting as an employment agency in relation to this role