Strategic Capacity Planner – Engineering & Manufacturing

MTrec Ltd; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate start

Competitive salary and benefits

Opportunities for professional develop

Collaborative and supportive work env.

Visible role within a growing business

Free on-site parking

Job summary

MTrec Ltd. is recruiting a permanent Resource Planner to strengthen their growing engineering business.

The successful candidate will develop and maintain comprehensive capacity plans across engineering, procurement, assembly, inspection and testing, quality and projects, providing visibility of hours, workload and risks. You will work with department managers to validate assumptions, identify bottlenecks, and support strategic workforce planning with data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Proven capacity planning, production planning or operations planning experience in engineering/manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and constraints.
• Experience developing resource-loaded schedules and capacity models.
• Advanced Excel skills: formulas, Pivot tables, dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive capacity plan for engineering, procurement, assembly, inspection and testing, quality and projects.
• Provide visibility of available labour hours, planned workload, resource gaps and delivery risks.
• Maintain forward-looking capacity plans for current projects, secured orders and future opportunities.
• Support strategic workforce planning by identifying when additional resources are required.
• Create and maintain resource-loaded schedules to understand workload impact.
• Collaborate with department managers to validate assumptions and improve planning accuracy.
• Identify conflicting priorities and propose mitigation actions.

Skills

Capacity planning

Forecasting

Resource scheduling

Operations planning

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Tools

Excel

Job description

MTrec Ltd. is recruiting a permanent Resource Planner to strengthen their growing engineering business.

The successful candidate will develop and maintain comprehensive capacity plans across engineering, procurement, assembly, inspection and testing, quality and projects, providing visibility of hours, workload and risks. You will work with department managers to validate assumptions, identify bottlenecks, and support strategic workforce planning with data-driven insights.