Production Planner

Job Title: Production Planner

Salary: Up to £35,000

Location: Oldham

Our client is currently looking for an experienced Production Planner to join the business on a permanent basis due to consistent growth year on year. An excellent opportunity to join a business that values and promotes from with in and progressing employees to enhance their careers.

Key responsibilities:

· Plan and prepare production schedules in order to meet business and customer demands

· General control and housekeeping of Production Work Orders

· Reviewing Warehouse stock availability

· Responsible for establishing and communicating daily work priorities to Supervisors for them to discharge

· Communication between Production and Customer Service and Purchasing Functions

· Effective capacity management of production lines, material and labour resources

· Creation of new item numbers and associated BoM information in Navision

· Maintain and communicate department KPI’s

· Proactively seek and implement improvements to the Production planning and execution processes

· General administrative duties for the Production Department

* To work within business guidelines and procedures. Notify Manager of Safety Hazards.

* The above is a non-exhaustive list of duties, and you are expected to undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by your Manager

Skills and Experience:

· Excellent communication skills

· Proactive approach to colleagues and customer needs

· Flexibility and the ability to prioritise

· Organised approach to work

· Proven problem solver

· Competent in use of Microsoft packages Excel and Word

· A knowledge of the Navision in house system would be beneficial

· Planning experience within a production environment is preferred

· Educated to at least G.C.S.E. standard and relevant work experience

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