We’re looking for a proactive Production Planner to join us on a 12 moth contract to lead the downstream supply chain, ensuring operational excellence and a seamless customer experience from order to delivery.
What you’ll do:
- Create and manage detailed production schedules that align customer demand with operational efficiency
- Raise work orders and manage MRP messages to deliver a streamlined production flow
- Monitor schedule adherence, lead times, and COTD performance to drive continuous improvement
- Own product master data and lifecycle phases in ERP, ensuring portfolio efficiency and cost control
- Coordinate recovery plans for overdue orders and communicate resolution strategies
- Reconcile the sales order book to ensure alignment across inventory, revenue, and customer expectations
- Collaborate cross-functionally to build master production plans that optimize resources and shift patterns
- Manage finished goods inventory policies and engineering change requests
- Report on key supply chain metrics including OTD, inventory health, and cost drivers
- Champion lean principles and deploy planning methodologies like infinite planning, flex planning, and MPS
- Act as deputy to the Supply Chain Manager within the Rotork Management Operating System
- Coach and support team members to deepen supply chain knowledge
- Lead the SiOP process, owning demand planning and capacity alignment across a 3–18 month horizon
Essential
- Educated to degree level or with appropriate workplace experience/qualification.
- Experience with, and sound knowledge of manufacturing supply-chain, planning and Lean methodology.
- Strong data analysis and experience with an ERP system. Knowledge of Material Requirements Planning.
- Use of common tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Power point.
- Strong skills in problem solving and the ability to troubleshoot and resolve scheduling conflicts and resource constraints
- Proficient in interpreting bills of materials and configured product structures
Desirable
- APIC’s certified desirable.
- 6 Sigma green belt trained and/or lean equivalent. Personal Specification: Essential
- Excellent relationship management and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively.
- Keen eye for detail and ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
- Agile leadership with the ability to adapt to changing conditions and be a change agent
Skills Required
- Degree-level education or equivalent workplace experience/qualification
- Experience with manufacturing supply-chain planning and Lean methodology
- Strong data analysis skills and experience with an ERP system
- Knowledge of Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve scheduling conflicts and resource constraints
- Proficient in interpreting bills of materials and configured product structures
- Excellent relationship management and communication skills
- Keen eye for detail and ensuring data integrity and accuracy
- Agile leadership and ability to adapt to change
- APICS certification
- Six Sigma Green Belt trained and/or lean equivalent
What We Do
Rotork is a FTSE-250 market-leading global provider of mission critical flow control and instrumentation solutions for oil and gas, water and wastewater, power, chemical process and industrial applications. Rotork has 3,700 employees, based in 39 countries and serving customers in over 170 countries, led from our head office in Bath, UK. No matter where in the world customers are located, Rotork products can be locally sourced and supported by life-of-plant maintenance, repair and upgrade services. Rotork – Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.
