Production Planner

Azenta Life Sciences; Wotton; Presencial; GBP 35.000 - 45.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Spreadsheet skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Continuous improvement

Herramientas

Oracle MRP system

ERP software

Descripción del empleo

Azenta UK, Ltd.

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity

Job Title

Production Planner

Job 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.

Key responsibilities:

• 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.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

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

If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please email at [e-mail] for assistance.

Azenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.