Production Administrator

About the Role

We are looking for a highly organised and detail-focused Production Administrator to join our client's engineering business based in Doncaster. This is a key role acting as the vital link between the production and planning teams, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations through accurate administration, reporting, and communication.

Key Responsibilities

• - Act as the central point of contact between the production and planning teams, ensuring clear and consistent communication
• - Provide regular updates on production progress, schedules, and any changes affecting output
• - Support production forecasting, helping to track and predict workload and capacity
• - Maintain accurate and up-to-date records across all production administration tasks
• - Raise issues, delays, and discrepancies promptly to the relevant teams
• - Prepare and distribute reports on production performance, delays, and KPIs
• - Liaise closely with the planning team to align schedules and resolve conflicts
• - Support general administrative duties across the production department
• - Maintain and update spreadsheets, trackers, and databases with a high level of accuracy
• - Flag any risks to production timelines and elevate where necessary

Skills & Experience Required

• - Strong Excel skills - confident using formulas, spreadsheets, and data tracking tools (essential)
• - Excellent administrative skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• - Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities
• - Clear and confident communicator, comfortable liaising between different teams
• - Ability to work proactively, spotting and raising issues before they
• - Experience in a production, manufacturing, or engineering environment is desirable but not essential
• - Comfortable working with reporting and forecasting data

About you

• - Reliable, proactive, and a strong team player
• - Calm under pressure with the ability to problem-solve
• - Confident raising concerns and communicating delays or issues clearly
• - A genuine interest in supporting an efficient, well-run production operation