Production Planner

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all customer demands and requests are effectively planned into the Volume Manufacturing schedule.

• Define and maintain a 'fit-for-purpose' planning process to suit the Manufacturing process with respect to changes in capacity and lead- time.

• Liaise with Sales giving accurate delivery dates and feedback on potential delays.

• Build and maintain an ongoing relationships with major OEM customers in order to understand their product and delivery requirements.

• Analyse output from planning tools with regard to inventory movements and capacity constraints.

• Understand key operational constraints with regards to capacity, through put times, test times and materials availability, and to modify the planning process accordingly.

• Control the product plan ensuring product mix/volumes are maximized to improve efficiency without large inventory increases.

• Coordinate phasing out of material related to product being made obsolete ensuring stock of non-required material is minimized.

• Participate in improvement meetings in order to identify and implement changes that will benefit the performance and organization of the manufacturing cell.

• Contribute , be involved and actively support the continuous improvement process within every facet of the Customer Order process.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Very good command of English language
• 2+years experience of working in planning, preferable within electronics.
• ERP Knowledge (preferable SAP)