Material Planner

Manpower RPO - Babcock; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Material Planner to join their team. In this role, you will oversee material demands, ensuring seamless operations and minimizing disruptions. You will collaborate with stakeholders to enhance processes and maintain product revision control. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility while contributing to significant projects. With a commitment to employee well-being and development, this opportunity is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Considerable experience in an engineering planning environment.
• Experienced user of MRP systems and tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage the release of demands for materials and mitigate shortages.
• Engage with stakeholders for continuous improvement in material planning.

Skills

Engineering Planning Experience

MRP Systems

SAP

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Title: Material Planner
Location: Telford, Shropshire + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract - 52 weeks
Role ID: SF61415

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Material Planner.

The role
As a Material Planner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for managing the release of demands for materials and work with internal key stakeholders to ensure that all material shortages are understood and lead mitigation efforts to avoid disruptions to the workshop.

Day-to-day, all activities will be coordinated via the material planner, to ensure product revision control are maintained with no adverse effects to workshop production. You'll create and distribute material availability and shortage reports to stakeholders and provide transparency to management and insights to performance.

• Engage with internal stakeholders in continuous improvement activities within the Material planning function.
• Raise and release purchase requisitions towards procurement based on system demand profiles.
• Evolve existing processes through continuous improvement tasks aiming for greater discipline and control and documentation within all functions as they relate to the planning function.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home along with occasional UK and international travel.

Essential experience of the Material Planner:

• Considerable experience within an engineering planning environment
• Experienced user of MRP systems and/or tools such as SAP

Qualifications for the Material Planner:
We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 20/05/2025