Material Planner

Our client has an opportunity for a Material Planner to join them on a permanent basis. You will be responsible for ensuring that the supply of materials meet the production schedule to ensure operational and production continuity.

Role: Material Planner
Location: Near Heathrow Airport, West London
Shift: Mon-Fri or Tues-Sat, a mix of early and lates
Salary: Up to £30,807.13

• Provide and maintain the schedule for the supply of ‘externally provided ‘ materials to meet production requirements, based on the master schedule
• Day to day Work Order materials management. This includes ‘sourcing’ internally from stock or as required informing purchasing of requirements, Oversight of management of picks from stores and
• Input to sourcing decisions from other live work Orders.
• Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions and ensure that stock processes are set to be consistent with the production plan requirements
• Understand, highlight and assess areas of materials risk, to minimise impact on production schedule and the delivery of the plan
• Ensure actions are in place and controlled, for all parts of the materials supply process. This applies to both holding purchasing and production (where required) to account
• Utilise any material requirements planning system (MRP/ERP) or IT system that is in place and ensure that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required.
• Monitor the integrity of bill of materials (BOM) and provide feedback to stores on inventory accuracy.
• Continually Plan, develop, implement and evaluate processes for material issue to ‘production point of use’.
• Monitor inventory levels against agreed target levels and aid logistics in setting safety stocks, based on the production output requirements.
• Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives and identify areas of improvement.
• Management of internal manufacturing requirements
• To promote and maintain required standards of general housekeeping
• To promote and monitor compliance with legislation, company policy and codes of practice relating to Health and Safety at Work, Airworthiness authorities or other company quality regulations
• To be conscious of Industrial Relations and conduct operations in such a manner as to aid the presentation of the company to employees and their representatives
• To be aware of company policies, procedures and agreements.
• You may be required to train personnel with a specified area subject to your qualifications and experience.

Requirements:

• Experience in Material planning
• Experience within the aviation industry
• Proven use of advanced interaction with ERP system
• SAP Knowledge
• Competent in Microsoft Office application
• Knowledge of BoM, Route and fundamental production planning concepts (forward and backward scheduling / MRP)
• Understanding of LEAN / JIT / Process improvement techniques, ideally with some practical implementation experience.
• GCSE or Equivalent
• Team player with proven ability to manage, lead and guidance
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft packages
• Excellent communications skills and able to work within a matrix environment
• Good organisational skills with strong planning and operational execution
• Excellent planning, problem solving organization and administration skills
• Able to turn vision into strategy and execute
• Decision maker, analysing for root causes rather than presenting the problem
• Self-motivated with flexible approach
• Able to deliver profitable growth through excellent commercial skills and deliver sustainable change
• Engage others and develop their potential with confident decision-making skills.

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply immediately.

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