Purchasing & Planning Administrator

Purchasing & Planning Administrator
Location: Wigan, Lancashire, WN5 0LQ
Salary: £24,000
Contract: Fixed term till 28/02/2025.
With a presence in 11 countries and over 10,000 employees, Saica Group manufacture sustainable recycled paper, corrugated cardboard and flexible packaging as well as providing solutions for waste management and the recovery of waste. Our Flex division produces a range of flexible plastic films, with our site in Wigan manufacturing products for major food retailers and suppliers.
We have an opportunity for an individual to join our Purchasing and Planning Team. This role is responsible for providing an administrative assistance to production scheduling and purchasing activities related to manufacturing process.
Your key duties will include:
• Raise new orders on the system
• Create production packs and print works instructions.
• Liaise with the Buyer on areas of film allocation and newly raised orders.
• Support in updating plans to ensure the evening / weekend film requirement picking list can be generated.
• Assist in optimising plans ensuring any duplicate orders are ran together to minimise set up time.
• Support in planning out shifts taking account of holiday logs and any machines unable to run due to insufficient resource.
• Communicate daily with Customer Services on all orders to ensure that they are aware of any issues that may have occurred.
• Update the Site Management Team on production runs and identify any concerns raised regarding quality, lost time, slow running or other related matters.
• Raise plate purchase orders, sending them across to Origination department and adding in costs when provided.
• Raise shopping carts on SAP system, and Purchase Orders alongside the Buyer
• To be able to order various miscellaneous items from different suppliers.
• Organise the delivery schedule to allow us to know what deliveries will be arriving and when, ensuring purchase orders have call offs on for any raw material arriving on site.
Skills, Qualification & Attributes
• Experience of general office administration
• Good level of computer skills including MS Office - essentials
• General knowledge of health and safety standards and practices
This role operates on Monday to Friday shift pattern, 37.5 hours per week, working hours 8.00-16.00 or 8.30-16.30 to be agreed with a potential of partly working from home.
Shift patterns can be subject to change, dependant on business requirements
What do we offer?
• Friendly atmosphere
• Progression
• Employee of the Month Award (monthly and annually)
• Holiday entitlement 23 days plus Bank Holidays (increasing to 24 days after 1 year and to 25 days after 2 years)
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
Interested? If you have a can-do, will-do approach to join a hardworking, dynamic, passionate, manufacturing team, please send your CV today