Production Planners – Manufacturing

Production Planners – Manufacturing

CCL Global is recruiting Production Planners at multiple levels to support complex manufacturing and engineering programmes within a highly regulated environment.

We are looking for planners with backgrounds in manufacturing, materials or engineering, with experience coordinating production demand, materials, capacity and manufacturing schedules.

Location: Reading

Contract: Long-term contracts Inside IR35

Working Pattern: Full-time onsite

Security Clearance: Active DV preferred; active SC candidates willing to undergo DV may also be considered

Key Responsibilities

* Develop and maintain detailed manufacturing and production plans.

* Translate Master Production Schedule requirements into achievable production plans.

* Maintain accurate planning information within MRP/ERP systems.

* Coordinate and de-conflict manufacturing demand, materials and available capacity.

* Monitor material availability, supplier deliveries and production constraints.

* Reforecast production plans in response to changing operational or supply-chain requirements.

* Develop manufacturing routes and detailed methods of manufacture.

* Apply Lean Planning and Production Control techniques including Kanban, Push/Pull and visual management.

* Support production cost and schedule estimates.

* Monitor KPIs and provide accurate production performance reporting.

* Work closely with manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, operations and other stakeholders.

* Identify constraints to delivery and proactively drive solutions and continuous improvement.

Essential Experience

For Production Planners, We are looking for candidates from either engineering or manufacturing/materials planning backgrounds.

Essential experience includes:

* Production planning within a manufacturing or precision engineering environment.

* Understanding of machining processes, manufacturing routes and shop-floor operations.

* Materials planning, supplier deliveries, purchase orders and production scheduling.

* Ability to reforecast plans in response to supply-chain challenges.

* Strong stakeholder management across manufacturing, operations, supply chain and suppliers.

* Good production reporting, forecasting and planning-system experience.

* SAP/ERP experience desirable.

The Senior Production Planner requires broader production planning and capacity-management experience, including:

* Balancing demand, supply and manufacturing capability.

* Translating Master Production/Supplementary Schedules into detailed plans with daily granularity.

* Creation and maintenance of Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) models.

* Detailed manufacturing planning covering time, cost and quality.

* Manufacturing cost estimation and challenging operational/manufacturing times.

* Managing the release of customer requirements into manufacturing and operational activities.

* Strong MRP, production control and capacity-planning experience.

* Experience within complex engineering, manufacturing or similarly regulated environments