Programme Planner

PROGRAMME PLANNER

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customisation, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.

We are now recruiting for two Program Planners to join our Supply Chain team. As Program Planner, you will be responsible in supporting all assigned programs by managing the production control activities throughout the product lifecycle from design phase to final production to ensure on-time delivery. The role owner will effectively drive the planning, tracking and coordination of the material requirements on behalf of the Supply Chain Team.

Key responsibilities & duties will include;
• Participate in the Integrated Program Team (IPT) and understand the program milestone plan and customer requirements.
• Carry out all production control activities to support the Industrialisation of new programs in line with the program milestone plan for development, confidence test, PDR, CDR, certification test articles and up to SS01
• Generate visibility reports for all build activities in a timely fashion and identify all shortages for program build stages
• Raise production orders and refresh them in line with Program requirements and manage them through their lifecycle in case of late BOM changes for the relevant build stages
• Raise rework orders when required
• Maintain Production Order Bill of Material for adhoc requests
• Collaborate with Industrialisation team to provide forecast completion dates for lower level builds
• Coordinate expedite activities with respective functional owners

Working knowledge of Production Planning / Production Control / Production Scheduling processes;
Demonstrable experience of MRP;
Ability to communicate across all levels;
Effectively work as part of a cross functional team;
IT literacy in MS Office;
Resilience and ability to function in high pressure environment;
Strong analytical skills and understanding of financial concepts combined with a continuous improvement mind set