Production Planner

The Production Planner position is working with a market-leading PLC listed manufacturing group with a network of manufacturing facilities across the UK. This fantastic new role is working out of their flagship site in the Wolverhampton area. It is supported with excellent company benefits and personal development opportunities.

Within the Production Planner position you will be responsible for preparing manufacturing plans and leading the production planning function working alongside a range of internal stakeholders including Design, Projects, Production and Sales ensuring delivery and customer experience is maintained.
What's in it for you as Production Planner

Base salary - £50k per annum
Up to 10% pension match
Personal development and training within a market leading manufacturing group
A comprehensive employee benefits program
Days based position - Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week
Share save schemeWhat experience do you need to apply for the Production Planner vacancy

Experience covering Production Planning within a manufacturing or construction based environment
Strong Microsoft Excel skills
The ability to chair planning revie meeting with project leadership teams, along with the ability to articulate changes / challenges with plans
The ability to deliver project schedules and plans for the short terms as well as planning future capacity and production requirementsKey Responsibilities of Planner / Production Planner

Conversion of Customer Project Deliverables into a production schedule into the numerous production phases across multiple build levels
Develop and maintain baseline project plans and schedules to give real time visibility of all contract commitments and operations
Support project plan delivery targets and reschedules aligned to business strategy
Create daily Production Plan with consideration of process, machine, and resource capacity - for full end to end process (including and up to arrival at customer sites)
Drive actions associated to key deliverables on Work in Progress (WIP) and Inventory management
Work closely with cross-functional team to generate build forecasts and customer project delivery status
Develop Production Planning tools and calculations, whilst contributing to process optimisation and process creation/implementation
Liaise with engineering, procurement and construction functions, and others as required, including third parties, to maintain awareness of project activities, their status, and their impact on the project schedule and manpower requirements
Provide copies of project plans and schedules in accordance with project reporting requirements
Assess and communicate schedule impact of change notifications

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