Strategic Production Planner - Align Demand & Capacity

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

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.