Strategic Production Planner for 15-Day Schedules & D365

Cast UK Limited; Skelmersdale; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Cast UK Limited is partnering with a UK manufacturer in Skelmersdale to recruit a Production Planner. You will own the rolling production plan, coordinating with production, purchasing and stores to align with customer delivery dates.

Initially focus on improving control and visibility of Excel-based planning tools, and play a key role in the transition to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, ensuring data integrity and practical scheduling across the operation.

Qualifications

• Three years of experience in production planning or related roles.
• Experience with multi-stage manufacturing and works orders.
• Strong Excel skills to analyse and present data.
• Ability to communicate with operators, supervisors and managers.
• Evidence-based decision making and keeping to realistic dates.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the rolling production plan, across a 15-working-day horizon.
• Translate customer requirements into daily and weekly production schedules.
• Balance production needs with labour, capacity, materials and delivery dates.
• Identify bottlenecks and risks early and propose solutions.
• Collaborate with Production, Technical, Purchasing and Stores on recovery actions.
• Monitor progress and adjust schedules as priorities change.
• Provide visibility of priorities and required decisions to senior management and shop-floor.
• Improve Excel-based planning tools and reports for accuracy and usability.
• Support data cleansing/validation for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Validate work centres, calendars, routings, lead times and planning parameters with teams.
• Become the principal user of Business Central for planning adoption.
• Support continuous improvement of production flow and communication.

Skills

Production planning

ERP systems

Microsoft Excel

Stakeholder communication

Organisational skills

Decision making

Tools

Business Central

Job description

Cast UK Limited is partnering with a UK manufacturer in Skelmersdale to recruit a Production Planner. You will own the rolling production plan, coordinating with production, purchasing and stores to align with customer delivery dates.

Initially focus on improving control and visibility of Excel-based planning tools, and play a key role in the transition to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, ensuring data integrity and practical scheduling across the operation.