Production Administrator

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The Operations Support position will report directly to the Production Manager with the role involving use of an ERP System (SAP) – Enterprise Resource Planner – Which streamlines processes across procurement, manufacturing, sales, finance and HR.

Your responsibilities

• Work closely with the Production Manager and Production team.
• Responsible for general procurement and order processing, identifying and processing priority orders
• Working with the Production Manager to ensure all Customer Orders are dealt with in professional and timely manner.
• Raise PO’s and plan deliveries of product and expedite deliveries and shortages
• Input for collection of consignment manifests
• Ensure that all Planning Reports & associated KPI’s are up to date
• Collating and filing all POD’s
• Proactively liaise internally with production, project sales team and suppliers
• General admin duties – diversion of calls, team administration, updating Technical Construction Files
• Provide priorities to production as required
• Resolve and report suppliers invoice queries
• Identify irregularities, communicate, manage and confirm they have been resolved
• Communication with colleagues in a professional and clear manner, both written and verbally
• Accuracy, precision, speed and attention to detail
• Communicate to a wide range of people at all levels
• Organizational skills, transparency
• Understanding of main processes relating to Orders, Production Planning and Despatches
• Microsoft Office 365 – Word, Excel
• Continuous Improvement
• Factual approach to decision making
• Own mutually beneficial supplier relationships
• Customer Focus
• Leadership and involvement of people
• Process and System approach

Your background

• Would suit someone who has experience of working with an ERP System (SAP) before within a warehouse / factory environment
• Training for the position will be given for a reasonable period but experience is necessary
• Must have some initiative, be enthusiastic, reliable, punctual and H&S conscious
• Must have a flexible approach to daily tasks and willing to do overtime if required

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the 2nd year running ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.