Production Planner

Monday Friday

Oldham

BX2 are recruiting for a Production Planner for a well-established client based in the Oldham area.

Production Planner

Skills, Experience, and education required:

• Previous experience as a Production Planner
• Experience working within a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Competent using Microsoft packages (Excel and Word)
• Proven problem solver
• Proactive approach to customer needs

Production Planner

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Plan and prepare production schedules to meet business and customer demands
• General control and housekeeping of Production Work Orders
• Maintain and communicate department KPI s
• Proactively seek and implement improvements to the Production planning and execution processes
• General administrative duties for the Production Department
• To work within business guidelines and procedures. Notify Manager of Safety Hazards.
• The above is a non-exhaustive list of duties, and you are expected to undertake any other
• Reviewing Warehouse stock availability
• Responsible for establishing and communicating daily work priorities to Supervisors for them to discharge
• Communication between Production and Customer Service and Purchasing Functions
• Effective capacity management of production lines, material and labour resources
• Creation of new item numbers and associated BoM information in Navision
• duties as reasonably requested by your manager