Material Planner

About Us:

Established Global Manufacturing business with divisions in the UK. Great friendly culture who are focused on career paths and promoting from within. Specialise in manufacturing high quality components for a blue chip client base.

The Role:

Reporting to the Logistics Manager you will support across logistics, production planning and people resource management. You will support with analysis of the logistics performance, drive continuous improvement and be customer facing both internal and external. The department is managed and sustained using the 5S methodology.

Core duties include:

• Achieve customer delivery targets
• Support with health & safety
• Achieve customer quality standards IATF 16949
• Monitor & analyse performance
• Maximise efficiency of operations via LEAN approach
• Liaise with customers
• Support Logistics Manager with budgets
• Ad-hoc tasks

What you need:

• Experience in the logistics function within a manufacturing business
• HNC/Equiv in Logstics & Transport
• IATF16949 procedures
• Experience in the Automotive industry (EDI scheduling)
• Customer service experience
• Analytical skills
• A high level of IT experience including Excel and ERP systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills