Production Planners - Manufacturing

Contracts Consultancy Ltd; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

CCL Global is recruiting Production Planners at multiple levels to support complex manufacturing and engineering programmes within a highly regulated environment. Location: Reading; Contract: long-term Inside IR35; Working pattern: full-time onsite.

Ideal candidates have backgrounds in manufacturing, materials or engineering, with experience coordinating production demand, materials, capacity and schedules, and translating master production schedules into actionable plans.

Qualifications

• Production planning within a manufacturing or precision engineering environment.
• Understanding of machining processes, manufacturing routes and shop-floor operations.
• Materials planning, supplier deliveries, purchase orders and production scheduling.
• Ability to reforecast plans in response to supply-chain challenges.
• Strong stakeholder management across manufacturing, operations, supply chain and suppliers.
• Good production reporting, forecasting and planning-system experience.
• SAP/ERP experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed manufacturing and production plans.
• Translate Master Production Schedule requirements into achievable production plans.
• Maintain accurate planning information within MRP/ERP systems.
• Coordinate and de-conflict manufacturing demand, materials and available capacity.
• Monitor material availability, supplier deliveries and production constraints.
• Reforecast production plans in response to changing operational or supply-chain requirements.
• Develop manufacturing routes and detailed methods of manufacture.
• Apply Lean Planning and Production Control techniques including Kanban, Push/Pull and visual management.
• Support production cost and schedule estimates.
• Monitor KPIs and provide accurate production performance reporting.
• Work closely with manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, operations and other stakeholders.
• Identify constraints to delivery and proactively drive solutions and continuous improvement.

Skills

Production planning

MRP/ERP

Master Production Schedule

Lean Planning

Kanban

Push/Pull

Stakeholder management

SAP/ERP

RCCP modeling

Tools

RCCP modeling

Job description

Production Planners - Manufacturing

CCL Global is recruiting Production Planners at multiple levels to support complex manufacturing and engineering programmes within a highly regulated environment.

We are looking for planners with backgrounds in manufacturing, materials or engineering, with experience coordinating production demand, materials, capacity and manufacturing schedules.

Location: Reading

Contract: Long-term contracts Inside IR35

Working Pattern: Full-time onsite

Security Clearance: Active DV preferred; active SC candidates willing to undergo DV may also be considered

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed manufacturing and production plans.
• Translate Master Production Schedule requirements into achievable production plans.
• Maintain accurate planning information within MRP/ERP systems.
• Coordinate and de-conflict manufacturing demand, materials and available capacity.
• Monitor material availability, supplier deliveries and production constraints.
• Reforecast production plans in response to changing operational or supply-chain requirements.
• Develop manufacturing routes and detailed methods of manufacture.
• Apply Lean Planning and Production Control techniques including Kanban, Push/Pull and visual management.
• Support production cost and schedule estimates.
• Monitor KPIs and provide accurate production performance reporting.
• Work closely with manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, operations and other stakeholders.
• Identify constraints to delivery and proactively drive solutions and continuous improvement.

Essential Experience

For Production Planners, We are looking for candidates from either engineering or manufacturing/materials planning backgrounds.

Essential experience includes:

• Production planning within a manufacturing or precision engineering environment.
• Understanding of machining processes, manufacturing routes and shop-floor operations.
• Materials planning, supplier deliveries, purchase orders and production scheduling.
• Ability to reforecast plans in response to supply-chain challenges.
• Strong stakeholder management across manufacturing, operations, supply chain and suppliers.
• Good production reporting, forecasting and planning-system experience.
• SAP/ERP experience desirable.

The Senior Production Planner requires broader production planning and capacity-management experience, including:

• Balancing demand, supply and manufacturing capability.
• Translating Master Production/Supplementary Schedules into detailed plans with daily granularity.
• Creation and maintenance of Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) models.
• Detailed manufacturing planning covering time, cost and quality.
• Manufacturing cost estimation and challenging operational/manufacturing times.
• Managing the release of customer requirements into manufacturing and operational activities.
• Strong MRP, production control and capacity-planning experience.
• Experience within complex engineering, manufacturing or similarly regulated environments