Materials and capacity planner

Our established client is looking to recruit for a Capacity / Material planner to organise production according to demand and quality standards. You will need to demonstrate a full understanding of customer expectations with an awareness of the impact that poor product quality has on customer trust and company's reputation.

Duties:

• Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products via capacity planning & lead time systems.
• Maintain the build schedules for all assembled manufactured products in line with customer requirements.
• Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand.
• Adhere to the production plan weekly, ensuring maximum customer satisfaction and best production efficiency working with current systems.
• BOM integration to support material planning activities.
• Organise production builds to satisfy customer demand & avoid productivity stoppage.
• Obtain purchased part/material rescheduling requirements with relevant buyer and confirm delivery dates.
• Keep up to date with supplier performance and discuss with Purchasing Team Leader on a weekly basis.
• Prepare and submit status and performance reports.

Skills

• Enthusiastic about the team and able to anticipate issues and problem solve in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Well versed in production procedures and ways to optimise them.
• Organised and results driven with great problem-solving skills.
• Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles
• An understanding of manufacturing processes
• Working knowledge of MS Office and systems
• Good at math and statistics

The company offer a fantastic work environment, excellent benefit package and career progression.