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Production Planner
Rugby
£41,000
Hours - Monday and Fridays 08:00am - 15:30pm
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 08:00am - 16:00pm
Purpose of the role
Optimizes the effective utilization of the manufacturing facility. Daily update of all relevant production and Logistics reports. Departmental support when needed.
Key Responsibilities:
Produces reports as required including, inventories and held raw materials.
Daily planning activities as preparing weekly production plan, coordinating the forecast input and initial sequencing.
Manage the production plan and arrange raw material supply for plan: projects / customer approvals / maintenance / trials etc.
Checks that all graphics requirements and production formats are approved and in place to meet the production plan for cans.
Establish an optimum production plan which meets the requirements and optimises the effective running of the manufacturing operation.
Adapt the production plan to accommodate extraordinary circumstances e.g. shutdowns, quality issues, down-time etc.
Proactively communicate planning problems to all relevant parties.
Using SAP to set up new labels and maintain master data.
Responsible for Alu coil data, booking onto SAP, calling into plant, weekly and month end counts.
Dealing with Logistics and Transport queries and solving queries.
Skills
Microsoft packages and SAP
At least 3 years in a Production planning role