Production Planner

Collaborate Recruitment; Ferndown; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a skilled Production Scheduler/Planner in Ferndown, UK. The role involves managing production planning, updating schedules, and ensuring on-time delivery in a busy engineering environment. The ideal candidate should have experience in production planning or scheduling, strong communication skills, and advanced Excel proficiency. This full-time position offers a competitive salary of up to £40k, along with flexible hours and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Generous salary up to £40k

Flexible working hours

24 days holiday plus bank holidays

Free parking on site

Qualifications

• Experience in production planning or scheduling ideally within engineering or manufacturing.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience using advanced Excel.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily production planning and scheduling.
• Maintain and update the production schedule.
• Communicate schedule updates and negotiate delivery dates.
• Raise works orders and ensure accuracy in requirements.
• Data management and report generation.

Skills

Production planning experience

Strong communication skills

Organization skills

Time-management skills

Advanced Excel

Confidence with ERP/MRP tools

Data monitoring experience

Systems savvy

Job description

Production Scheduler / Production Planner

As the Production Planner, to manage daily production planning, scheduling and support on-time delivery within a busy engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the production schedule using an in house scheduling system.
• Translate production forecasts into detailed schedules, coordinating materials and resources, and maintaining the production process, to ensure that the team meet customer expectations.
• Communicate schedule updates and negotiate delivery dates with customers directly (over the telephone / email).
• Raise works orders and ensure all requirements are captured accurately.
• Work with Production to resolve schedule slippages and implement recovery plans.
• Liaise with Purchasing to ensure raw material availability.
• Data Management: Maintain accurate planning data via order management software and other internal systems, and generate reports to highlight progress, risks, bottlenecks etc.
• Identify process gaps and support initiatives to enhance planning quality and efficiency.
• Monitor material issuing and inventory levels.
• Provide monthly KPI reporting.
• Support Quality with corrective actions and reviews.

Qualifications

• Experience in production planning or scheduling ideally within engineering / manufacturing or a resource planning environment.
• Strong communication, organisation and time-management skills.
• Confident working under pressure and managing multiple priorities.
• Advanced Excel - essential
• Confidence with ERP / MRP or other similar planning tools is essential
• Data monitoring experience - largely system generated, but you will need to be able to manage and manipulate data through the order management software.
• Systems savvy, with a data driven mindset.

What’s on offer

• A generous basic salary of up to £40k, depending on experience.
• Full time hours, flexible hours with an early finish on a Friday.
• 24 days holiday (Plus bank holidays).
• Free parking on site.