Job Title: Senior Planner
Location: Salisbury
Salary: £37,500.00 – £46,200.00
Job type: Full Time
Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.
The role:
The Senior Planner will be required to establish and control the overall production plan for the company ensuring that the manufacturing plan is maintained in line with the Sales plan and provide information to the Management Team accordingly.
The responsibilities of the role include (but are not limited to):
- Generate and maintain ‘Master Production Schedules’
- Interpret the MRP procedures to enable accurate judgements to be made on MRP order recommendations, assisting all departments in problem solving analysis on the computer system.
- Maintain an ongoing analysis of slow moving and obsolete stocks. Continually making provision for it’s disposal or usage and reporting this to the management team.
- Ensure incoming materials are managed and expedited through the Goods Inwards Inspection function in accordance with overall production requirements.
- To liaise between Production Control and all service areas to establish priorities and control of programme changes
Senior Planner Specification:
- 2 years experience in a planning role within a manufacturing environment
- Working knowledge of MRP & associated planning and scheduling routines
- Experience of computerized inventory management systems and up to date methodology.
- IT Skills (Microsoft Office)
- Ability to understand technical drawings
This role will be worked over a 4.5 day week; Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:45 and Friday 08:00 – 12:30. Flexibility in this role is critical to the success of supporting the team. Hybrid working will be available for this role after the training period has been completed.
Benefits:
- We actively encourage an open and collaborative culture across our site through the recognised suggestion scheme and reward and recognition scheme
- 5.5 weeks’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- A generous pension scheme
- Share save scheme
- Holiday buying and selling scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which includes dietary advice, wellbeing initiatives, family matters and counselling support
- We hold annual social events
- Cultural days
- Free on-site parking
- Podiatrist
- Weekly fruit baskets
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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Engineering Assembly Manager, Production Planner, Project Planner, Production Planning Manager, Production Engineer, Production Controller, Materials Controller, Production Engineering, Production Coordinator, Manufacturing Manager, Production Supervisor, QA Manager, Production Manufacturing, Engineering Planner, Manufacturing Supervisor, Production and Repair Team lead, Production Controller, Production Coordinator, Production Manufacturing may also be considered for this role.
