On-Site Production Planner: Injection Moulding

Azenta Life Sciences; Wotton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Azenta UK, Ltd. is seeking a Production Planner for an on-site role in Wotton, RH5 6QT.

The position runs Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm, with duties spanning production scheduling, materials coordination, and performance reporting to optimize the manufacturing cycle. The successful candidate will manage planning across injection moulding and clean room processes, work with demand planning, and support continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring accessibility of materials and tools for

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of planning, coordinating, scheduling, inventory management and production control experience preferably with plastic injection moulding processes.
• Good understanding of Oracle (or similar) MRP based planning system.
• Strong capability in modern planning concepts and practice.
• Abilities to handle multiple competing priorities, such as prioritizing orders running through the same production facility due on the same date with capacity constraints, minimizing inventory and lead times, etc.
• Experience working for a global organization headquartered in North America preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all production scheduling, including injection moulding, clean room processes and instrument cell.
• Coordinate demand planning to meet business priorities.
• Ensure maintenance tasks are planned into capacity schedules for equipment efficiency.
• Schedule trials of new tools and refurbished/repaired tools and R&D activities.
• Provide lead time data to the demand planning team and notify delays.
• Address and solve demand issues.
• Coordinate with warehouse to ensure materials are available for production start.
• Generate metrics for production performance.
• Support annual inventory audits and production admin tasks.
• Review holiday schedules to plan resources.

Skills

Spreadsheet skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Continuous improvement

Tools

Oracle MRP system

ERP software

Job description

Azenta UK, Ltd. is seeking a Production Planner for an on-site role in Wotton, RH5 6QT.

The position runs Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm, with duties spanning production scheduling, materials coordination, and performance reporting to optimize the manufacturing cycle. The successful candidate will manage planning across injection moulding and clean room processes, work with demand planning, and support continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring accessibility of materials and tools for