Defense Production Control Planner

Operational Planning

• Create, own and maintain an up to date detailed level Schedule for Products from baseline engineering timings to pack & ship.
• Pulling of information from various departments to aid in the creation of detailed schedules.
• Creation of machine level schedules to aid production with priority lists and targets.
• Liaise with the Bill Of Materials (BOM) Specialists to confirm machine timings and routings.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Production to ensure the SIOP cycle is timely, efficient and effective.
• Assess impact to materials availability and production schedule from customer sales opportunities that may be affecting demand for product over and above the plan
• Creation of recovery schedules in the event of missed deadlines to ensure material is still available for customers on the requirement date.
• Fully knowledgeable on productions and the facility where the opportunities exist to create recovery plans where necessary
• Release of shop orders to the production floor in a timely fashion in line with production schedules.
• Liaise with CSG / Project Managers regarding status of orders throughout its life cycle.
• Assist the SIOP Manager with ensuring ‘on time delivery’ of orders.
• Develop a close working relationships and information flow between various departments throughout the company.
• Takes actions daily to check, verify and confirm the key milestones can be still be achieved, including but not limited to; delivery of material, facility workload, test and packing restrictions.

Capacity Planning

• Aid in the development of Capacity planning methodologies with the SIOP Manager. Once established take on the daily maintenance of capacity plans.
• Maintain capacity planning within the ERP/MRP systems

ERP/MRP

• Assist in the resolution of MRP and planning discrepancies.
• Updates to the local ERP/MRP system with production schedule dates and expected lead times.

 General

• Participate in continuous improvement activities.
• Creation of picking lists in line with production plans to ensure product moves effectively though out the process
• Participate in special projects for continuous improvement
• Job holder will often need to make judgements based on partial information / best judgement with information available.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 2 experience of working within a manufacturing environment is essential.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Process background preferred.
• Strong persuasion and high levels of confidence.
• High level of resilience – experience of working at the frontend of business responding to daily issues and changes in short time frames.

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