Our client, a leading national manufacturer due to expansion, is looking to recruit an organised, professional, and efficient Warehouse & Production Planner to complement their growing team.
Reporting to the Production Manager, duties to include:
- Organize production according to demand and quality standards
- Collaborate with Production Managers to ensure optimum productivity and timely completion of orders
- Create and implement integrated systems for carrying out production processes, such as quality and inventory control, human work factors, and cost analysis, logistics and material flow, and production coordination
- Coordinate between the production program and production sites for on-time delivery of products
- Ensure the availability of engineering data at product sites to support the build schedule
- Support the resolution of issues such as shortages, squawks, and taps; internal and external purchase orders and production delays that may influence on-time bundle delivery
- Cultivate systems that guarantee that production schedules align with program schedules
- Provide initiatives for continuous production and engineering improvement
- Create and deliver production status metrics to aid effective decision-making in the organization.
As a successful candidate you will have practical experience in production planning, production materials, forecasting and inventory, be self-motivated, possess excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills together with the ability to plan and manage a workload efficiently. ICT Literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Office (Inc. Excel) is essential and a related qualification in a technical field would be beneficial but not essential.
In return the company offers an excellent salary and benefits package and an innovative, creative and dynamic work environment.