Role: Production Planner
Salary/Rate: £25-31.79 per hr inside IR35
Location: Reading 5x pw
Contract Duration: until 31/12/27
We are currently looking for a Production Planner for our government client.
This Production Planner role is full time on site in Reading, 5 days per week. There is no further flexibility with expected time on site, or the office location.
The contract for this Production Planner position is until 31/12/27, with potential to extend, operating inside IR35.
Security Clearance: Developed Vetting ("DV Clearance")
This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role, it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.
Essential Skills / Experience required:
- Proven experience in production planning within a manufacturing or precision engineering
- Engineering background (Precision Engineering/Mechanical or Manufacturing) with a strong understanding of machining processes, manufacturing routes, and shop floor operations.
- Experience managing material availability, supplier deliveries, purchase orders, and production schedules, with the ability to reforecast plans in response to supply chain
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across supply chain, operations, manufacturing teams, suppliers, and customer-facing functions.
- Good computer literacy and planning/reporting skills, with experience tracking production performance, analysing forecasts, and delivering accurate updates to internal and external stakeholders.
Desirable Skills
- Experience in SAP and ERP systems
Role / Responsibilities:
- Provide Production Planning services, encompassing Manufacturing and Science demand across Operational Delivery Units.
- Support the maintenance of the Master Production Schedule/supplementary schedule and ensure forecast dates are accurate.
- To detail plan methods of manufacture in response to tasking requirements with full regard to time, cost and quality.
- Ensure local MRP system is updated and accurate.
- Demonstrate and use 'Lean Planning' techniques and 'Production Control' processes such as visual management, Kanban and Push/Pull in the operational/ manufacturing areas.
- Proactively tackles blocks and barriers to progress.
- Attend Visual Management board meetings ensuring all actions are being addressed.
- Liaises with Delivery Units for clarification and coordination of balanced and de-conflicted demands and plans.
- Support the creation and maintenance of Basis of Estimate with Production costs and schedules.
- Ensure all planned requirements are aligned within the Master Production Schedule/Supplementary Schedule and loaded into the local MRP system.
- Liaises with other functions within the technology centres for clarification and coordination of balanced and de-conflicted production demands and plans.
- Updating and reporting on Key Performance indicators as required.
- Adopt a 'See It, Own It, Solve It' mind-set, by identifying obstacles to success and taking ownership to find solutions to those problems.
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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group. If you qualify, please notify us on igs [at] circlerecruitment [dot] com. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your guaranteed interview. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a better way for us to communicate, please do let us know.
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