Production Planners – Manufacturing

Production Planners – Manufacturing

CCL Global is recruiting Production Planners at multiple levels to support complex manufacturing and engineering programmes within a highly regulated environment.

We are looking for planners with backgrounds in manufacturing, materials or engineering, with experience coordinating production demand, materials, capacity and manufacturing schedules.

Location: Reading

Contract: Long-term contracts Inside IR35

Working Pattern: Full-time onsite

Security Clearance: Active DV preferred; active SC candidates willing to undergo DV may also be considered

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed manufacturing and production plans.

• Translate Master Production Schedule requirements into achievable production plans.

• Maintain accurate planning information within MRP/ERP systems.

• Coordinate and de-conflict manufacturing demand, materials and available capacity.

• Monitor material availability, supplier deliveries and production constraints.

• Reforecast production plans in response to changing operational or supply-chain requirements.

• Develop manufacturing routes and detailed methods of manufacture.

• Apply Lean Planning and Production Control techniques including Kanban, Push/Pull and visual management.

• Support production cost and schedule estimates.

• Monitor KPIs and provide accurate production performance reporting.

• Work closely with manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, operations and other stakeholders.

• Identify constraints to delivery and proactively drive solutions and continuous improvement.

Essential Experience

For Production Planners, We are looking for candidates from either engineering or manufacturing/materials planning backgrounds.

Essential experience includes:

• Production planning within a manufacturing or precision engineering environment.

• Understanding of machining processes, manufacturing routes and shop-floor operations.

• Materials planning, supplier deliveries, purchase orders and production scheduling.

• Ability to reforecast plans in response to supply-chain challenges.

• Strong stakeholder management across manufacturing, operations, supply chain and suppliers.

• Good production reporting, forecasting and planning-system experience.

• SAP/ERP experience desirable.

The Senior Production Planner requires broader production planning and capacity-management experience, including:

• Balancing demand, supply and manufacturing capability.

• Translating Master Production/Supplementary Schedules into detailed plans with daily granularity.

• Creation and maintenance of Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) models.

• Detailed manufacturing planning covering time, cost and quality.

• Manufacturing cost estimation and challenging operational/manufacturing times.

• Managing the release of customer requirements into manufacturing and operational activities.

• Strong MRP, production control and capacity-planning experience.

• Experience within complex engineering, manufacturing or similarly regulated environments