Planner/Expeditor

Experienced Planner/expeditor immediately required for large manufacturing company based near Stourbridge

Working within the busy planning office, you will offer a high-level of administrative support to the team.

Main duties of the role will be to creating and developing production plans, liaising with Planners and Sales, reporting on and investigating stock, expediting work and updating Excel documents.

Other duties/responsibilities will include:

• Creating, developing, and issuing Production Plans, along with updating status as needed
• Liaise with other planners to meet required lead times
• Report any issues that affect lead times
• Update capacity hours to Planning Supervisor
• Liaise with Sales on customer requirements and lead times
• Plan in holiday requirements
• Run daily negative report on stock and investigate
• Run Variant Report Month end stock, distribute to section leads and collate information. Investigate discrepancies
• Daily stock checks and investigations
• Working in SAGE to issue material to work orders
• Expediting work through shop floor production departments
• Updating and creating excel documents to support production requirements
The right candidate would ideally:
• Be experience working in a planning capacity
• Have a background in manufacturing
• Excellent communication skills along with a can do attitude
• Competent in Outlook, Excel and Sage (preferably Sage 200)
• Good attention to detail
• Strong admin skills
• Highly organised with an eye for detail
• A good energy and enthusiasm

Hours of work: Monday to Thursday 7am to 4pm, Friday 7am to 1pm

Salary negotiable depending upon experience – around £24-26k