Planning Team Leader

Alup Kompressoren; Warrington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 hours of training per year

Pension scheme

Career progression

Job summary

Alup Kompressoren in Warrington is seeking a Service Planning Manager to lead the team of service planners, coordinating field service engineers and ensuring timely, cost-efficient service delivery.

You will manage SAP planning, schedule engineers, monitor orders, and liaise with customers. The role requires a strong admin background, excellent communication, and travel willingness; a comprehensive benefits package is offered.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of working in business administration.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong planning and organising skills.
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload.
• High level of computer literacy including Microsoft Office suite.
• Willingness to undertake occasional business travel.
• Experience of working with SAP and planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of service planners across UK & Ireland.
• Ensure engineers and systems are utilised efficiently.
• Ensure team training on relevant platforms.
• Manage SAP planning systems usage by the team.
• Oversee day-to-day people management tasks (leave approvals, appraisals).
• Set engineer work schedules to maximise efficiency.
• Liaise with customers to arrange and confirm service visits.
• Provide customers with risk assessments, method statements and certifications.
• Monitor progress of customer orders to ensure timely completion.
• Maintain orders in SAP and allocate work for reporting.
• Collate information from Field Service Engineers for records.
• Liaise with Field Service Engineers and managers to expedite requests.

Skills

Business administration

Communication

Planning & organising

Workload prioritisation

Microsoft Office

Education

None

Tools

SAP

Planning tools

Job description

Your role

The role involves taking the lead of a team of service planners who organise the day-to-day activities of our field service engineers. The successful individual will be responsible for guaranteeing efficient operations through ensuring all planned service requirements are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the service planners across the business in UK & Ireland ensuring engineers and systems are utilised efficiently.
• Ensure all team members are trained on relevant platforms.
• Effectively manage the use of the SAP planning systems, ensuring they are utilised by the team effectively.
• Carry out day-to-day people management administrative tasks for the planning team, such as annual leave approvals and performance feedback appraisals.
• Set engineer’s work schedules in order to maximise efficiency and minimise non utilised hours.
• Liaise with customers by phone or e-mail to arrange and confirm the service visits and ensure they are fully aware of the work and the date the work is to be carried out.
• Be responsible for providing customers with all relevant risk assessment, method statements and engineer certification as required.
• Monitor and record the progress of all customer orders to guarantee work is fully completed, and any additional work is planned and completed in a timely fashion.
• To maintain all orders within SAP, confirming all work is correctly allocated so that quality reports can be gathered via SAP reporting facilities.
• To collate information from the Field Service Engineers to accurately record and maintain customer records and information.
• Regularly liaise with the Field Service Engineers, Service Sales Managers, Capital Sales Managers and internal departments to expedite customer requests.

To succeed, you will need

• Significant experience of working in business administration.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong planning and organising skills.
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload.
• High level of computer literacy including Microsoft Office suite.
• Willingness to undertake occasional business travel.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience of working with SAP and planning tools, however training will be provided.

The following requirements are desirable but would be deemed advantageous

• Experience working with a sales-led organisation.
• Knowledge of the compressed air industry.
• Basic product knowledge, with a particular relevance on Atlas Copco group air compressors.
• Experience of working within a service environment.

In return, we offer

• A supportive working environment, with a collaborative team.
• Training from day one, with at least 40 hours of training offered a year.
• An excellent benefits package — including a desirable pension scheme.
• A satisfying career — we are passionate about the development & progression of our employees and have high targets and objectives regarding equal opportunities and the promotion of females within our business.
• With us, you have the authority to act and many opportunities to create lasting results.

Job location

This role is based at our Warrington Office.

Applicant must be a UK resident and have a valid UK work permit if required.

Contact information

Talent Acquisition Team: Charmaine Vassie

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