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Role: Production Planner

Location: Cheltenham

Salary: £45,000 - £48,000 +  Benefits: 27 days holiday + bank holidays, 8% employer pension contribution, flexible benefits platofrm, Staff canteen, Free Parking.

This market leading engineering company are recruiting for Production Planner to join their site in Cheltenham. The company manufacture and supply a range of specialist products to various industries across the globe.

Main duties & responsibilities:

Fully understand, review and action MRP messages based on an appropriate degree of analysis of the supply and demand situation.
To manage the release of sales order demand with the aim of balancing customer requirements with production capabilities.
Review items as part of the regular Inventory modelling (IQM) process and be able to interpret and recommend the ideal inventory settings and key opportunities to optimize the inventory level e.g. batch size adjustment, lead-time reduction
Manage all product sales lead-times aiming to maintain on time to customer requested dates while maintaining the ability to deliver product on time to commitment.
Review the supply of component parts on a daily basis, progressing any key shortages and seeking all possible resolutions which includes, but is not restricted to, suggesting alternative products, shuffling production priorities and identifying substitute components.
Creation and management of the assembly production plans for your assembly lines and close cooperation with production teams to meet the required deadlines, ensuring the plan is correctly prioritized and any issues are promptly resolved.
Update all daily and weekly reports required to support customer service and business reporting. This includes, but is not restricted to the Orderbook report and Demand Resource Simulator file (DRS)
Complete all other requests from other teams including product quotes, sample and modification actions, scrap note approvals, order status updates and revised promise dates
Support New Product Introductions, continuous improvement programs and any other projects that require planning support
Provide detailed quotes for large order demands based on production planning logic and process
Cover for other members of the team when they are out of the office and provide support for any activity reasonably requested by the Assembly Planning Team Leader
Skills / Experience:

Relevant Planning experience in a production environment
Experience with MRP Tools & processes
Excellent Organisational skills
Good time management and prioritisation
Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
Proactive communicator
High level of initiative
Strong mathematical and analytical skills
Strong collaborator

For further details, please contact Nick Sollis – (phone number removed) or email your cv (url removed)

Omega Resource Group are an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Oil & Gas, Construction and Manufacturing sectors.

We are always seeking Engineering Staff, Senior Managers, Skilled and Semi-Skilled Machinists, Mechanical Fitters, Electrical Fitters, Quality Engineers, Materials Science Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Electronics Engineers, Test Technicians, Technical Authors and Laboratory Technicians to name but a few.

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