Marshall Aerospace are currently recruiting for an experienced Production Planner to bolster the team within Cambridge.

Purpose of the position

The main purpose of the role, together with a small team, is to create and implement a best practice capacity planning vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures in line with ERP/MRP systems to aid and improve operational performance.

AccountabilityResponsibilities:

Managing the day to day activities on the ERP / MRP system (IFS) supporting the production planning process and operations. Responsible for initial loading of projects after design release, setting up the Master Part information, making amendments and supporting spares. To release projects to planning, purchasing and the shop floor in a timely manner. To roll-up all project costs at the end of the project, ensuring all parts are issued to the project.

Tasks:

• Working closely with the Production scheduler you will be responsible for the capacity planning, developing these services in the organisation, ensuring efficiency and utilisation of available plant hours is incorporated in planned maintenance cycles
• Responsible for material demand planning and stock control, loading projects and product support demand on the MRP system to customer requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring that capacity planning is fully integrated within the ERP/MRP systems, ensuring delivery against operational requirements and which optimise manufacturing efficiency and costs
• Managing the control of Data within IFS, identifying trends, actioning MRP Messages to ensure the system is up to date and accurate and handling any stock related queries from all personnel.
• Refine systems, methods and process to continually improve plans allowing the organisation to better anticipate customer needs, maximising planning input into bids.
• Timely closure of projects ensuring all parts are issued to the project, allowing rolled up costs to be visible to project managers and finance.
• Manage deviations from the plan that have financial impact
• Master Part set up, transferring parts from the Design software (PLM Windchill) to IFS, ensuring all key fields are accurate
• Ensure all shop orders are linked to the appropriate parent order to allow true costs to be shown to the project and for future work
• Ensure all amendments are processed through the MRP system in a timely manner ensuring parts are at latest issue and that parts are issued to the job
• A leading role all MRP training to all personnel to ensure they are able to use system appropriately
• Stationary ordering for Land Systems operations department

CapabilityBehavioural Competencies:

• Confident individual with the ability to create and foster close working relationships
• To be self-motivated with the ability to produce accurate work and meet tight deadlines

Technical Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to be able to present reports and presentations
• Excellent analytical skills
• Problem solving skills, identifying errors and providing solutions to resolve
• Technical skills - Ability to navigate MRP software, IFS desirable

Education:

• Degree (engineering or business) level preferred, although professional Six Sigma, lean or equivalent qualifications accepted.
• Have good working knowledge of MS Office based applications (Data management qualifications an advantage)

Experience:

• Extensive experience within a factory planning role, preferably within a composites manufacturing or aerospace/ defence environment
• Very experienced in the use of ERP / MRP systems
• Competent I.T. skills i.e. Word, Excel and MRP. Previous experience with IFS desirable.
• Good written and verbal skills.
• Ability to interact with a range of stakeholders.
• Understand planning methods and skills.
• Understanding of assembly systems.
• Basic Understanding of Inventory management
• Understanding of project based systems

Additional local needs

Site based role - Cambridge