Production Planning Supervisor

We are seeking a Production Planning Supervisor to work for a manufacturing company in Marden, Kent.

Job Purpose:

To maintain the Master Production Schedule for the Company and provide planning, purchasing, fabrication, paint and production with all of the information needed to plan and control the manufacturing operation in order to meet the customer demand & production schedule..

Main Tasks:

• Be responsible for creating and maintaining the Master Production Schedule in SAP and communicate the requirements to all relevant parties via the Production Planning Tracker.

• Coordinate and chair Frozen Zone meeting & Sales and Operations Planning meetings with all the relevant parties to ensure the Master Production Schedule is up to date.

• Ensure that the short term plan is an accurate reflection of current production status and deadlines and equally the long term plan is correctly loaded to ensure the correct provisioning of long lead time components.

• Upload Forecast in SAP in line with the S&OP meeting.

• Using SAP, ensure that production documentation is loaded to the shop floor in a timely manner to support the build plan and that kitting and back flushing is carried out promptly to allow the progress to be accurately tracked in SAP.

• Support all manufacturing departments with capacity planning data to allow them to effectively manage overtime and subcontract decisions.

• Create and maintain production routings and parts allocation, identifying where improvements can be made to streamline the process and reduce build times.

Skills and Experience required:

• A full and varied work experience within a manufacturing environment including proven experience of production scheduling, planning, warehouse management and logistics.

• A sound background in using SAP (MM & PP).

• Understanding of KPIs and data analysis tools

• Excellent IT skills including the Microsoft Office suite.

• Proven people management experience.

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