Production Planner

Full Job Description

Production Planner

Rugby

£41,000

Hours - Monday and Fridays 08:00am - 15:30pm

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 08:00am - 16:00pm

Purpose of the role

Optimizes the effective utilization of the manufacturing facility. Daily update of all relevant production and Logistics reports. Departmental support when needed.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Produces reports as required including, inventories and held raw materials.
• Daily planning activities as preparing weekly production plan, coordinating the forecast input and initial sequencing.
• Manage the production plan and arrange raw material supply for plan: projects / customer approvals / maintenance / trials etc.
• Checks that all graphics requirements and production formats are approved and in place to meet the production plan for cans.
• Establish an optimum production plan which meets the requirements and optimises the effective running of the manufacturing operation.
• Adapt the production plan to accommodate extraordinary circumstances e.g. shutdowns, quality issues, down-time etc.
• Proactively communicate planning problems to all relevant parties.
• Using SAP to set up new labels and maintain master data.
• Responsible for Alu coil data, booking onto SAP, calling into plant, weekly and month end counts.
• Dealing with Logistics and Transport queries and solving queries.

Skills

• Microsoft packages and SAP
• At least 3 years in a Production planning role