CAD & Process Planning Manager

Barrett Steel Limited; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading steel manufacturer is seeking a CAD and Process Planning Supervisor in Rotherham, UK. This role involves managing the CAD team and ensuring efficient process planning. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in a management role, ideally in the steel industry, and must demonstrate effective organizational, reporting, and communication skills. Responsibilities include planning throughput according to demand and managing work streams effectively. A highly competitive salary and several benefits are offered.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary and benefits

Car or Car Allowance

Bonus Potential

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Annual Cycle to work scheme

Life assurance

Company discount scheme for savings

Access to health & wellbeing services

Barrett Steel pension

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar high-profile management and planning role, ideally in the steel industry.
• Proficiency in Sigma Nest software.
• Familiarity with AS400 or similar systems.
• Advanced Microsoft software skills.
• Demonstrated management, planning and reporting abilities.

Responsibilities

• Plan throughput effectively according to demand.
• Organize work streams within the CAD team for efficiency.
• Manage the CAD team to minimize waste and maximize utilization.
• Communicate stock levels and ensure correct nesting grades.
• Be flexible with urgent orders while minimizing disruptions.
• Ensure realistic planning of cutting deadlines and communicate orders.

Skills

Experience in similar management and planning role

Sigma Nest

AS400 (or similar)

Strong Microsoft Knowledge

Excellent management, planning and reporting skills

Job description

All About the Role

Reporting to the Operations Director; the role of the CAD and Process Planning Supervisor is to manage and own the full process planning of all profile works including the management and leadership of the C Roberts CAD team. This is an extremely important role within the profiles division and requires a strong person who has the courage of their convictions to challenge both profile productions and the incoming Sales personnel. The ultimate responsibility is to ensure the process plan is structured to enable Operations to achieve maximum efficiency and throughput through careful capacity planning, organisation and communication via Sales and production. The individual must finely balance the customer needs and requirements in line with production capacity and staffing ensuring that C Roberts is competitive with lead times and service delivery across the industry.

Primary Responsibilities

• Efficiently plan throughput directly proportional to demand and capability, ultimately aiming for cutting to be 24 hours ahead and nesting 3 days per machine (where possible)
• Manage and organise the work streams in and out of CAD, ensuring all machines are nesting efficiently and evenly across Profiles.
• Manage the CAD team to ensure they are multi nesting, minimising waste and increasing plate utilisation, prioritising current off cuts over new plate.
• Communicate effectively with Profile Sales and Production regarding Off Cut stock levels and itemisation as well as ensuring correct grades are being nested where required.
• Be flexible in your approach to planning, allowing for urgent orders to be prioritised with minimal disruption, ensuring all departments are aware of said changes.
• Ensure the profile cutting deadlines are realistically planned and that the load planner is communicated to with respect to orders being delivered, ensuring that the load planner isn’t planning to deliver orders we are aware aren’t going.
• Challenge production on the OEE and throughput, including time in motion should OEE reduce.
• Plan, advertise and distribute an accurate lead time, challenging Operations management regarding machine and staff utilisation where necessary.
• Own the process and staffing.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Report directly into the Site Director to ensure no ambiguity or pressure from Production or Sales interferes with operational output and efficiency.
• Manage all CAD staff leave, workflows and shift patterns.
• Attend all production meetings with lead times and urgent work for production and answers to any previous queries or issues.
• Attend and be effective in morning Ops / Sales meeting regarding urgent orders and queries, ensuring the appropriate actions are carried out.
• Attend and run the afternoon Ops meeting declaring the run to list, ultimately communicating any ‘not going’ orders to the load planner and sales, replanning accordingly.
• Support the nesting of urgent or difficult orders where necessary.

This list is not exhaustive, and any other reasonable tasks set by the Operations Director may be required to be undertaken and completed in a timely and efficient manner.

We offer you

• Highly competitive salary and benefits including
• Car or Car Allowance
• Bonus Potential
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Annual Cycle to work scheme
• Life assurance
• Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
• Access to health & wellbeing services
• Barrett Steel pension

Essential Skills for the role :

• Experience in a similar high-profile management and planning role, ideally in the steel industry.
• Sigma Nest
• AS400 (or similar)
• Strong Microsoft Knowledge
• Excellent management, planning and reporting skills