Job Title: Assembly Planner and Progress Chaser
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salary: £23,000 – £25,000 per annum
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent (37 hours per week – Monday to Friday)
The company is a US hydraulics company with facilities located strategically around the globe. The Leeds site is currently recruiting an Assembly Planner/ Progress Chaser. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a proactive approach who wants to be involved in the day to day running of a busy business. Ideally suited to someone with previous experience in a similar role who thrives in a team working environment.
The Company will invest in your development, equipping you with the technical skills for the present and ensuring you have a fulfilling, long-term career.
Main duties will include:
- Peg work and create route cards
- Correctly plan work through the existing ERP System
- Create work to lists for the shop floor using existing systems
- Assist with making sure delivery dates to customers are achieved
- Gain understanding of parts and products to be able to interrogate costs and delivery dates entered into the system
- Plan resource based on times to ensure overtime is avoided as much as possible and work is evenly loaded throughout the month.
- Issue pick list to stores for work to be picked 2 weeks in advance. Any shortages to be reported to purchasing to recover and stick with original plan and hit customer promise dates.
- To manage, maintain and continue with the development of the MRP system (Javelin/Jobshop)
- To co-ordinate with sales & production to best achieve production workflow and priorities
- To work proactively and liaise with the sales team in terms of providing general information regarding capacity, delivery times to ensure all customer demands are met.
- Coordinate, plan and prioritise operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Monitor jobs and highlight potential bottlenecks
- Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption
- Resolve capacity issues by prioritised scheduling
- To monitor and ensure Health & Safety standards are met
- Review, maintain and develop Risk Assessments & Safe Operating Procedures
Person Specification:
Technical/Job Specific
- You must be computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel
- Proven planning experience with extensive knowledge of Jobshop/Javelin software or similar is desirable.
- Ideally you will be experienced in a manufacturing or similar environment
- Ideally you will be someone who is already carrying out purchasing related activities as part of your current role
- Ability to prioritise work load effectively
Core Skills
- Attention to detail and good communication skills are essential to this role
- You must be able to work to contract specific deadlines and communicate confidently with all internal departments and shop floor operatives.
- Excellent organisation skills.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
Personal Qualities
- The company operates within a dynamic and fast paced environment; to thrive in this role you will need to be friendly, approachable, flexible, highly organised and have excellent communication skills
- You will be someone that is open to learn new skills and adapt to the company’s processes, systems and procedures, whilst also suggesting improvements where needed.
- Proven people skills are required; you must have ability to work with others while effectively handling internal pressures.
- Strong personal accountability with a team working ethic for timely completion of tasks
When applying you should provide a covering letter detailing your salary expectations and availability to commence work.
The site is conveniently situated approximately 1 mile from the centre of Leeds with easy transport links to both the city centre and the motorway.
All candidates must be currently eligible to both live and work in the United Kingdom.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Assembly Planner, Production Planner, Progress Chaser, Production Coordinator, Assembly Supervisor, Production Supervisor, Production Planning, Planning Coordinator, Production Controller, Manufacturing Planner, Production Operator may also be considered for this role
