Description
The role involves coordinating production schedules and ensuring smooth operations by leveraging MRP systems, analytical skills, and cross-department collaboration to meet customer deadlines and drive process improvements.
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Details
Location
Staplehurst, Kent
Salary
Competitive salary, DOE
Hours
Full time
Contract
Permanent
Extras
Generous benefits package
About Us
A family run company, Magnetic Shields Limited (MSL) is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of magnetically shielded products and rooms. Our brand new factory unit and Fibre laser with full stock automation more than doubles our production capacity and throughput. This period of expansion is a very exciting time for the company and we are looking to speak to applicants interested in joining us our production team as a Production Planner.
Benefits
- Competitive pay rates
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Quarterly staff bonus scheme
- Company sick pay scheme
- Employee referral scheme
- Death in Service cover
- Competitive holidays
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
- Training and development
About the Role
As the Manufacturing Production Planner/ Scheduler, you will be responsible for highlighting any areas of concern to ensure smooth production to meet customer deadlines, liaising with all departments and making this role your own. In the long term, you will help implement the new scheduling software into our ERP system and then be ready to take over the everyday scheduling for all production departments throughout the business.
Roles & Responsibilities
Includes (but not limited to):
- Full understanding of an MRP system
- Release and control all Production Work Orders throughout the operations
- Co-ordinate completion of finished goods to Despatch
- Work closely with Inspection and purchasing on sub contracted work orders
- Work closely with other department: Sales, Quality, Engineering and CAD
- Work closely with Purchasing and Stores to advise on changes in the schedules which affect raw material supplies
- Highlight production bottle necks within the business and support the PM on implementation of all process improvements
- Manage the system to ensure data integrity within the master data
- Create weekly production plans to optimise the throughput
Essential Skills
- Previous experience in a planning function from within a manufacturing or very comparable environment, ideally at least two years
- Excellent IT skills, must be experienced in MRP systems, Excel, Word, etc
- Excellent communication skills, must be a team player
- Ability to adapt & respond to changes in planning restrictions
- Excellent analytical skills
- Good organisational skills [multi-tasker], used to deadlines
We acknowledge that the most valuable aspect of the business is the people and we are looking to recruit the next generation of our workforce!
We will invest in your success, is it time for you to join our team and start your journey?
Approved Agencies only - cold calls will not be taken
We regret that we cannot assist applicants with UK visa sponsorship at this time
We will invest in your success, is it time for you to join our team and start your journey?
Approved Agencies only - cold calls will not be taken
We regret that we cannot assist applicants with UK visa sponsorship at this time
