Material Planner - Motorsport

Milton Keynes

9 months ago

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Fancy working in the F1 industry, my client supplies the whole F1 grid and want someone like you to be part of their journey.

The culture is massive for my client and they are working hard to ensure all the employees are well looked after through training/development with a new people development team in place.

You'll be working for a company who are flying at the minute, order book is stacking up and looking to grow their team further. You'll get job security, job satisfaction, personal development and progression with this opportunity.

We are looking for a material planner, you'll be working for a company who are a leader in their field and dominate within their specialism. Key responsibility will be ensuring production have everything they need to deliver products to customers on time. In this role you'll be working very closely with other departments such as engineering, production, stores, logistics, to ensure that materials are available when needed.

To be a success in this role you'll need to come with experience of working with MRP systems, any software considered but need to be used to using these systems daily. Will need to be coming from an engineering / manufacturing background.

They work with some World famous brands, the majority of which are in the Motorsport industry however, they also supply products into the Aerospace, MOD and Marine industries so as you can imagine quality is of the upmost importance.

They have a specially kitted out workshop that you would be proud to show customers which is located conveniently just on the outskirts of Milton Keynes centre. This position will be working closely with the supply chain team who are a very hard working and dedicated group, so someone who shares that approach will no doubt thrive in this company.

Interested in hearing more? Please click to apply and Graeme Marks will be in touch to tell you all about it

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