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Job Purpose:

Responsible for the accurate and timely creation of production supply instructions. Creating and maintaining capacity plans, material supply orders and manufacturing instructions. Supporting the Plant manager with customer queries, assisting production supervisors with supply and demand orders, schedules and changes. Ensure inventory is available on time for production and production demand is monitored.

Key relationships:

• Plant Managers
• Other Production Planner
• Production line leaders
• Commercial managers
• Customer Action Teams
• Supply chain team
• Suppliers

 Duties, responsibilities, and essential functions:

 HSE & Quality responsibilities

• Take responsibility for personal health and safety.
• Always work in a safe way. Do not behave in a way that could cause harm to oneself or other employees, ever.
• Conform to all company policies, safe systems of work and Health & Safety legislation.
• Observe and act in accordance with all signage, instructions and rules relating to safety at all times.
• Always wear appropriate PPE as instructed or mandated. Do not modify or damage PPE.
• Attend and complete all mandatory training.
• Report all accidents, dangerous occurrences, and potential hazards to Manager.

• Be personally responsible for the quality of own work.

• Advise Manager, in a timely manner, of any inconsistencies, defects or suspected quality non-conformances in products, tools or processes.

 Duties and responsibilities

• Monitor demand orders across multiple production lines and maintain capacity plans.
• Ensure capacity plans are processed accurately and lead times are maintained and communicated to the business.
• Ensure production lines have manufacturing instructions ready on time.
• Communicate demand fluctuations and potential capacity concerns to Plant Manager and Line Leaders, accurately and in good time.
• Monitor factory demand and create trend data for analysis.
• Using company ERP system, schedule works orders, create purchase orders and receipt inventory.
• Provide ERP system support to Line leaders and Plant manager, process system queries.
• Maintain and monitor inventory levels and adjust supply orders accordingly.
• Support Plant manager with customer queries and changes to schedules.
• Communicate with Customer Action Teams and the Plant team about changes, or queries.
• Communicate any delays in supply orders with Commercial teams.
• Complete administration tasks for Plant manager.
• Assist Line Leaders with scheduling orders where necessary.
• Suggest improvements to processes and systems to create operational efficiencies.

 Key professional skills:

• Coherent and concise verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent MS Excel skills.
• NAV ERP experience.
• Collect or create accurate data.
• Capacity scheduling and planning.
• Raising purchase orders, receiving inventory into system, creating production orders on ERP system.
• Be able to work collaboratively with peer group and wider business departments.

 Essential Knowledge and experience:

• Proven previous experience in a similar manufacturing role.
• MS Excel skills.
• ERP system knowledge.

Personal attributes and talents profile:

• Behave professionally and with integrity in-line with company values, be calm under pressure.
• Clear communicator.
• Maintain composure when working under pressure.
• Be self-motivated and able to positively motivate others.
• Strong team player.
• Self-organised.
• Able to use own initiative and be proactive.
• Be able to follow standardised processes efficiently whilst always stiving to improve quality, cost and delivery.

Variation to duties:

In addition, occasional out of standard hours including weekend work may be required as job duties demand. You may also be required to undertake other occasional duties as may be reasonably requested of you commensurate with your capabilities.

GDPR Compliance:

Due diligence when dealing with all personally identifiable information in accordance with current data protection regulations.

Security Awareness and Data Protection training will be mandatory to comply with current Data Protection Regulations and associated competency standards.  

Ready to take the next step? Email hr@foster-gamko.com