Production Planner
£30,000
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Elevation Recruitment Group are delighted to be working with a rapidly growing aerospace business in the search for a Production Planner to be based in their Sheffield site. The client is a highly specialised components manufacturer and supplier, focussed on aerofoil and rotative components. They are at the leading edge of machining technologies and are dedicated to providing an efficient and low-cost service to their customers across the aerospace, defence, and energy sectors.
The successful candidate will become part of an exciting and growing business with access to the company's great benefits package, including 10% company pension contributions, 25-day holiday entitlement plus holiday exchange scheme, monthly company raffle and more.
The Position of Production Planner
- Planning, Scheduling and coordinating production of all products in the agreed fixed window
- Look at manning capacity and advise on requirements to achieve plan
- Introduce root cause analysis for any planning/ production issues
- Project management – Control and support continuous improvement projects
- The Production Planner will monitor and maintain production schedule
- Support and update master schedule
- Raise works orders and work to lists as required – Ensure production have requirements to achieve schedule
- Gather information as requested for meetings and relevant stakeholders
- Introduce productivity improvements in production
- Liaise with Purchasing/ Supply chain Department for all materials and tooling requirements ensuring all are on site before orders are planned into production
- Support in subcontract order management
- Support in any ad-hoc tasks as required
- Lead weekly schedule review with all stakeholders to review for potential issues and highlight important orders within the fixed window
- Introduce planning mechanisms to the role and embed repeatable planning processes
Person Spec for Production Planner
- Highly motivated individual
- Excellent attention to detail
- Apprenticed trained or time served experience. (If applicable)
- Educated to a Grade C or above in English and Mathematics at GCSE Level or equivalent
- Ability to manage own time and workload effectively