Manufacturing Operations Admin: ERP & Projects Support

Kraft Recruitment; England; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £30k

23 days holiday + banks hols

Bonus Scheme

Buy Holiday Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

EAP / Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Maternity Pay

Friday Half-Days

Life Assurance - 4x annual salary

Paternity Pay - 2 weeks full pay

Pensions Employee 5%, Employer 3%

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Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Sick Pay

Training and Development

Job summary

Kraft Recruitment has an opportunity for an Operations Administrator in a leading pumps and rotating equipment manufacturing environment. The role focuses on maintaining accurate ERP data, supporting project and production teams, and ensuring timely information for operational decisions.

The ideal candidate will have prior administration experience in engineering/manufacturing/OEM settings, strong Excel and data management skills, and the ability to coordinate multiple priorities across

Qualifications

• Ideally educated to GCSE level or equivalent, including English and Maths, or relevant practical experience.
• Proven experience in an operations administration, coordination, manufacturing administration or similar role.
• Proven work experience within a manufacturing, engineering, OEM or industrial environment.
• Proven experience supporting operational, project, procurement or production teams.
• Working knowledge with ERP/MRP or business management systems.
• Good level of written and numerical literacy.
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident coordinating multiple activities, priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across departments.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, for data management and reporting.
• Good understanding of manufacturing, production, procurement and order fulfilment processes.
• Able to identify potential operational issues and escalated them appropriately.
• Ability to maintain accurate and confidential business information.
• Excellent commercial awareness and understanding of the importance of cost, quality and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Keep accurate operational, order and delivery information within the ERP/business management system.
• Monitor aftermarket order progress, key dates and outstanding actions.
• Support project, procurement and production teams with status updates, trackers, reports and follow-up actions.
• Identify potential delays, issues or information gaps and escalated them to the appropriate manager.
• Support operational, project, procurement and production meetings with accurate information and administration.
• Maintain action trackers and ensure agreed actions are followed up to completion.
• Coordinate information between departments to improve visibility and flow of work.
• Support continuous improvement of operational processes, reporting and system data.
• Ensure information is accurate, timely and readily available to support effective operational decision-making.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Multitasking

Data management

Education

GCSE level or equivalent

Tools

ERP/MRP system

Job description

Kraft Recruitment has an opportunity for an Operations Administrator in a leading pumps and rotating equipment manufacturing environment. The role focuses on maintaining accurate ERP data, supporting project and production teams, and ensuring timely information for operational decisions.

The ideal candidate will have prior administration experience in engineering/manufacturing/OEM settings, strong Excel and data management skills, and the ability to coordinate multiple priorities across