Production Planner at Polypipe

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The Role
 

Reporting to the Labour planner the role is to organise production according to demand and quality standards. The goal is to ensure the smooth and cost-efficient flow of our production operations It will involve working with cross functional teams to ensure the smooth coordination of current and new programmed demands and built schedules.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products via capacity planning & lead time systems.

• Maintain the build schedules for all assembled manufactured products in line with customer requirements and available capacity and review regularly.

• Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand.

• Adhere to the production plan weekly, ensuring maximum customer satisfaction and best production efficiency working with current systems.

• BOM integration to support material planning activities.

• Organise production builds to satisfy customer demand & avoid productivity stoppage.

• Regular liaison with Labour planner regarding line running rates and any potential line problems, reviewing factory production reports, monitor reasons for variance, and advise Labour planner of the effects.

• Investigate all large schedule fluctuations, liaise with sales to ascertain reasons while keep Labour planner informed evaluating the costs where necessary.

• Ensure adequate checks exist regarding the availability of parts for build avoiding supply shortages.

• Obtain purchased part/material rescheduling requirements with relevant buyer and confirm delivery dates.

• Keep up to date with supplier performance and discuss with Purchasing Team Leader on a weekly basis.

• Monitor finished goods stock levels maintaining inventory policies in line with agreed KPI’s.

• Investigate and resolve purchased part/material stock and delivery queries with relevant departments.

• Prepare and submit status and performance reports.

• Collaborate with quality control, warehouse and other staff.

• Proactively help to resolve customer product concerns by root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions, ensuring team buy-in to changes.         

The Person

Demonstrates a full understanding of customer expectations with an awareness of the impact that poor product quality has on customer trust and Nuaire’s reputation. Enthusiastic about the team and able to anticipate issues and problem solve in a fast-paced changing environment. The production planner will be required to be well versed in production procedures and ways to optimise them. They are organised and results driven with great problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge of tracking material and flow within current production

• Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles

• An understanding of manufacturing processes

• Working knowledge of MS Office and systems

• Good at math and statistics

• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication abilities

• Ability to work well with others in a team environment, providing input and feedback in a helpful manner

The Benefits 

• 25 days holiday 

• Pension contribution matched up to 8% 

• Life Assurance 3x base salary 

• Genuit sharesave scheme 

Here at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group’s success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool. We have a role to play in making the built environment more sustainable, building a low carbon business ourselves as well as delivering sustainable solutions at scale.