Production Planner

Azenta LTD; Hounsdown; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Azenta LTD is seeking a Production Planner to plan and schedule production, coordinate with demand planning, and ensure materials are available for the manufacturing cycle. The role covers injection moulding, clean room processes, and instrument cell work, with ERP and tooling coordination as part of daily tasks.

The candidate should have strong spreadsheet and data-analysis skills, be able to manage competing priorities, and work closely with cross-functional teams to drive continuous

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of planning, scheduling and production control experience.
• Experience with plastic injection moulding processes is preferred.
• Experience with Oracle or similar MRP planning system.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule production to meet customer requirements across the complete production cycle.
• Coordinate production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules.
• Review production performance and identify improvements to cycle times and efficiencies.
• Lead time data sharing with demand planning and manage lead time delays.
• Support ERP transactions and create works orders for new products.

Skills

Production planning

Scheduling

Inventory management

MRP systems

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

Oracle MRP

Job description

All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity Job Title Production PlannerJob Description Full Time - On Site | Permanent | Wotton, RH5 6QT | Monday - Friday | 8:00am - 4:30pm

• Plans and schedules production to meet customer requirements, taking account of the complete production cycle and laboratory process. Works from engineering plans and production specifications to establish production schedules, labour requirements, and capacity requirements. Coordinates production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules. Reviews and reports on production performance to plan, reviews cycle times and efficiencies highlighting areas for improvement.
• Responsible for all production scheduling, this includes but is not limited to, injection moulding, other clean room processes and work in the instrument cell.
• Works with demand planning to ensure business priorities are met.
• Ensures maintenance tasks to maintain operating equipment efficiency are planned into capacity schedules.
• Schedule trials of new tools and refurbished / repaired tools & R&D activities.
• Provide lead time data to the demand planning team, responsible for notification of any lead time delays.
• Problem solving demand issues.
• Working with warehouse to ensure materials and stock are available on time for production start.
• Generating metrics for production performance.
• Supports and plans production around annual inventory audits.
• Production admin support tasks, such as assisting with ERP transactions, scrappage forms & creating works orders for new products.
• Reviews holiday schedules to plan resources.
• Other reasonable duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Experience:

• 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.

Skills, aptitude and personal characteristics:

• Must have excellent spreadsheet skills with strong analytical abilities and excellent attention to detail. The ability to generate new spreadsheets with interlinking with be essential.
• This role requires the ability to be flexible and proactive to meet customer requirements. Requires sense of urgency, and the ability to provide detailed information when needed.
• Must be able to establish working relationship with cross-functional colleagues.
• A good fit with the Azenta Values, honest and ethical.
• Collaborative and communicative: Able to communicate with and effectively work with the management team; to leverage strengths of the culture, while instilling sense of direction, execution, and achievement.
• Commitment to Continuous Improvement.

Due to the rural area, applicants will require their own reliable transport