Job Title: Planning Manager (Master Scheduler)
Location: India Mill, Darwen
Salary: £30,000 to £40,000 based on relevant skills experience and qualifications.
Job type: Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week over a 4-day week, Monday to Thursday
Brookhouse Aerospace is a well-known and respected name in the Aerospace Industry currently in its 71st year, and during this time, the business has seen many positive changes following an MBO in 2021 from Kaman UK.
We offer a range of capabilities, including manufacturing composite components, metallics, sheet metalwork, fabrication, machining and treatments.
We are approved and certified for JOSCAR, AS 9100 and NADCAP certificated and are approved Tier 1 and 2 suppliers to the Aerospace and Defence manufacturers in the UK and internationally, such as Airbus, BAE, MBDA, Rolls Royce, Safran and Spirit.
The Company prides itself on its innovative approach to product design and manufacturing and its excellent reputation for high-quality customer service.
We are currently looking for a Planning Manager (Master Scheduler) with at least five years of working experience within an aerospace/manufacturing environment.
The role:
The Master Scheduler’s role is to ensure that customer demand and or any inventory balancing strategy is scheduled through the various manufacturing work centres in the most efficient sequence, to ensure that customer demand is met on time and in full at the lowest delivered cost.
To react and reschedule in a timely and efficient manner, as and when unforeseen activity causes disruption to the plan, by considering the wider objectives, whilst still maintaining the optimum service level to the customer at the lowest delivered cost.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Monitor the schedule and progress of each manufacturing resource throughout the day.
- Make updates on job priorities using the Epicor ERP system.
- Check the status of materials, manufacturing jobs, purchased components, and outside services.
- Inform Sales, Procurement, Shipping, Quality Inspection and Manufacturing of schedule changes that may drive action for multiple groups.
- Identify bottleneck operations and take action to raise awareness of appropriate resources and collaborate with them to establish priorities and implement solutions to adhere to the schedule.
- Provide clear and timely communication to the customers, Program managers, Master scheduling, NPI and purchasing on production status for schedule delays and action being taken to meet schedule.
- Participate in pre-production review meetings and follow-up with Engineering or other resources to ensure all operational concerns have been resolved.
- Ensure Epicor is maintained for date changes, quantity changes, operations added, or when jobs must be put on hold.
- Perform daily review of all job transactions and ensure proper maintenance is performed.
- Participate in continuous improvement of planning systems and drive improved accuracy and efficiency.
- Monitor and report standards deviation from actuals.
- Participate in team meetings to ensure that a consolidated view is available and does not exceed the capacity of shared resource work centres.
- Timely escalation of unresolved issues likely to impact OTIF performance.
- Attend, contribute and lead cross-functional meetings to improve, and or expedite service to the customer.
The Candidate:
- Self-motivated, confident, and proactive and can plan and organise workload
- Ability to work as part of the team whilst using own initiative to make autonomous decisions
- Customer Focused experience with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Multi-processes/cell manufacturing
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- MRP/ERP system experience (Epicor, SAP, Sage etc.) as well as Microsoft Office applications
Benefits:
- Holidays start at 28 days per year (including Bank Holidays) (Based on 4 day week)
- On-site – Occupational Health
- Employee Referral Scheme
- Corporate Simplyhealth Cash Plan (Benefit in Kind)
- Life Insurance x 2
- Currently sourcing a subsidised onsite canteen
Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa’s at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Project Coordinator, Project Planner, Project Management, Project Controller, Business Process Project Manager, Construction Manager, Civil Engineer, Engineering Manager, Site Manager or Commercial Project Manager will be considered for this role.
