Production Planner

Apex Recruitment; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Recruitment is seeking an experienced Production Planner to convert the top-level build plan into a stable, visible, and executable production plan for Leamington Spa. The role focuses on aligning customer demand, material availability, and capacity to ensure on-time delivery.

Ideal candidates will have strong MRP knowledge, planning expertise, and a proactive approach to operational performance. If you are organized and analytical, we would like to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Production Planner role within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong MRP planning capability.
• Experience in analysing production capacity, workload and resource planning.
• Ability to investigate root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain a weekly fixed production plan aligned to customer demand within the agreed planning window.
• Confirm material availability ahead of production and resolve shortages before they impact build.
• Liaise with planning, production and material handling teams to ensure schedule alignment and clear work-to lists.
• Control schedule changes to minimise disruption across assembly and upstream manufacturing areas.
• Manage planning exceptions, expedite critical issues and complete root cause corrective actions.
• Utilise batching, product family loading and sequencing techniques to improve production flow and efficiency.
• Analyse production load, capacity and standard hours to support effective level loading.
• Maintain planning KPIs and use production data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Skills

MRP planning

Production scheduling

Analytical skills

Stakeholder communication

Team collaboration

Job description

Role: Production Planner

Salary: to be discussed on application

Location: Leamington Spa

Contract: Permanent

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Production Planner to convert the top-level build plan into a stable, visible and executable production plan across manufacturing and sub-assembly areas. The Production Planner will ensure that customer demand, material availability, production capacity, and operational constraints are aligned to enable safe, efficient, and on-time delivery. This Production Planner position is ideal for someone with strong MRP knowledge, planning expertise and a proactive approach to driving operational performance. If you are an organised and analytical Production Planner looking for your next opportunity, we would like to hear from you.

Role & Responsibilities of a Production Planner

• Produce and maintain a weekly fixed production plan aligned to customer demand within the agreed planning window.
• Confirm material availability ahead of production and resolve shortages before they impact build.
• Liaise with planning, production and material handling teams to ensure schedule alignment and clear work-to lists.
• Control schedule changes to minimise disruption across assembly and upstream manufacturing areas.
• Manage planning exceptions, expedite critical issues and complete root cause corrective actions.
• Utilise batching, product family loading and sequencing techniques to improve production flow and efficiency.
• Analyse production load, capacity and standard hours to support effective level loading.
• Maintain planning KPIs and use production data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Requirements Of the Production Planner

• Previous experience in a Production Planner role within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong MRP planning capability.
• Experience in analysing production capacity, workload and resource planning.
• Ability to investigate root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Confident working with production schedules, planning data and operational stakeholders.
• Collaborative approach with the ability to challenge issues affecting schedule stability.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on improving planning accuracy and operational efficiency.