Planner

Stevenston, Ayrshire
Adecco

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Planner to join a large fast moving manufacturing company in North Ayrshire. This role is a 4 day working week of Monday to Thursday. They are also offering an excellent benefit package

• 36 hour week
• Health care scheme
• Company Shares Scheme
• Holiday buy scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• On site Occupational Health with an annual health check
• Cycle2work scheme
• Company Benefits Hub with a variety of benefits such as technology vouchers, travel insurance, wine plan, dental insurance, gym membership
• Enhanced Statutory Schemes
• Employee Rewards Scheme
• Long Service Award

Your role will be to prepare short to long term production plans to ensure customer demand, service levels, manufacturing efficiency’s and inventory objectives are met.

You will have many responsibilities, some will include:

To ensure all activities within your area of control are undertaken in full compliance with H&SE legislation and Company procedures and policies and to report any unsafe acts or unsafe conditions observed in accordance with your responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act

Create and maintain business production plans based upon customer sales demand and product development requirements using the company’s ERP system

Create, schedule and update works orders accordingly to support production plan

Ensure materials are available to support production plans and highlight any issues which may impact on the timely completion of the plan

Review and agree/accept new sales orders/project requirements based upon material, plant and resource availability

Liaise and communicate with Supplier Management, Customer services, Stores/Logistics, Manufacturing and all other relevant stakeholders to ensure all business requirements are captured in the production plan

Monitor and highlight variation to the manufacturing plans and initiate and progress corrective actions

Manage finished goods inventory in line with stocking policies, identifying any sales that are at risk of being delivered late

Highlight any risk to the production plan/customer orders/project requirements associated with material, resource or plant shortfall

Input and maintain planning information within the company’s ERP System

Update all KPIs on a daily /weekly/monthly basis as required

Continually seek out opportunities for improvement within operations to deliver improved business results and elimination of financial waste within the business

Our client is looking for the following:

Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Communication, problem solving, decisions making

IT Skills – Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint etc

Experience in a production or material planning environment

Excellent communication and motivational skills

Must have personal commitment to Safety, Quality and Environmental standards

The ability to build and develop effective relationships and use these to improve performance

Strong IT, communication and team working skills

If you would like to discuss this fantastic opportunity further, please get in touch today !

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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