Senior Planner - North West - Circa £40k per annum

Our client is looking to recruit a senior member of its Planning team to co ordinate production scheduling, ensure compliance to customer delivery deadlines, work across production teams and represent the planning team at a managerial level.

• Dealing with production teams to ensure scheduling plans are met
• Full awareness of production status at all times across all manufacturing areas and at outworkers, taking corrective action where necessary to ensure delivery deadlines are achieved
• Maintain communications with Outworkers, Customer Service and Operations to react and be proactive in changes to production
• Liaising and meeting with internal customers, outworkers and suppliers and occasionally with external customers
• Provide essential support to the Planning Manager and Operations Management Teams
• Deputise for the Planning Manager during holidays and other absence, including representation at senior level and managing the team of Production Planners
• Attend daily and other production related meetings
• Be part of cross department projects to improve processes and procedures
• Ensure there are Standard Operating procedures in place for the role

• Customer focused
• Well presented, demonstrating high levels of professionalism and commitment
• Proficient communicator, both verbal and written
• High competence for dealing with detail
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to deal with change and work under pressure
• Able to provide out of hours support to Production by being prepared to take calls on a mobile and log onto schedule via company laptop to make scheduling changes
• Able to work weekends as part of weekend cover rota