Production Planner

Are you ready for a new challenge in your career

Would you like to be part of a company that can offer you that challenge whilst helping you develop your career further.

Due to continued growth and success we are currently recruiting a number of Full time roles including

Production Planners

Design Engineer

Metfinn are seeking enthusiastic, forward thinking applicants, who have a passion to drive the business forward and be part of our team.

We pride ourselves on the family foundations the business has been built on, with a great team of people that have a “can do” attitude that has supported our growth whilst never loosing sight of the core values of teamwork.

Why not be part of this amazing team and enjoy the journey we are all on.

Job Description : PRODUCTION PLANNER

Role: The Production Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining the production plan and system accuracy to meet our customer requirements whilst contributing to the achievement of the company’s strategic and operational targets. This will involve near term capacity planning as well as reacting to forecasts for long range targets whilst considering current inventory, lead times and production capacity. Working closely with the production managers they will monitor daily production outputs to ensure high levels of schedule adherence are achievable and realistic. They work closely with the sales, customer service, production and purchasing teams.

Core Duties include:

• Be the Front Facing contact for the business to assigned Customer Accounts.
• Ensure the customer provides detailed forecast and schedules that then translates into Purchase orders.
• Evaluate Purchase Orders received from customers to create a structured planning schedule for Production.
• Plan and organize production workflow for one or multiple products.
• Co-ordinating with Production team on resources required to support manhours of production to fulfil won contracts.
• Support the Production team with reviewing and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay, promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production.
• Detect and resolve issues when they arise.
• Communicate effectively all production schedules and any deviations required in advance.
• Collect output information٫ including number of finished products v planning schedule.
• Create status and performance reports and present them to managers.
• Work together with quality control٫ warehouse and other staff.

Essential Skills and Background:

• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Excel, MRP / ERP system experience.
• Strong communicator with customers and also internal departments.
• Ability to work well in a fast paced and pressured environment.
• Significant experience with production planning and quality control activities.
• Significant experience in manufacturing resource planning.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication abilities.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £27,453.00-£30,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Dungannon: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Production planning: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person