MRD Recruitment is hiring a Planner for our manufacturing client, based in Wolverhampton. The Planner will report into the Planning Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, people centric Planner based in Wolverhampton, to join an energetic team within a growing business.
As a Planner based in Wolverhampton, you will play a crucial role in creating and altering production schedules, working with key stakeholders within the business. My manufacturing client, based in Wolverhampton is looking for a Planner, who is passionate about planning production operations and can be reactive to changes.
Key Responsibilities for the Planner based in Wolverhampton:
- Identifies and develops solutions to meet customer order needs
- Ensures all recording on systems, MI and administration is accurate
- Ensure priorities, goals and deadlines are met to budget and detailed work plan is produced for the departments
- Pro-actively co-ordinates with site management to ensure issued addressed before impact
- Develops and maintains positive and effective working collaboration with site and functional managers
- Provides regular and ad hoc reports, feedback and intervention to ensure site goals are delivered OTIF
- Produces accurate workflows ensuring maximised productivity
- Ensures own familiarity and compliance with company policies and procedures, standards of operation and safe operating procedures
- Keeps and maintain appropriate records as required
- Provides consistent, flexible and timely attendance at work
- Is flexible to meet company operating requirements
- Provides pro- and re-active and supportive verbal and written communication to team members, peers and managers
Key Qualifications/Skills for the Planner based in Wolverhampton:
- Results driven and knowledge of Production.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to identify and process data trends and patterns
- Highly self-motivated and commercially astute and results driven with outstanding attention to detail and accuracy
- You will be an effective communicator, who can build strong working relationships
- Proactive approach/right first-time attitude
- Attentive to detail with good strategic ability
- Excellent communication skills at all levels
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills
- Knowledge of Excel