Job Description

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The production planning community ensures that our client’s site has the capacity and capability to deliver their ongoing aviation production requirements, in accordance with aircraft commercial delivery dates. The department is key to providing the Senior Management team with the data required to enable them to make important strategic and tactical decisions, working collaboratively with other functions, to ensure optimal planning results e.g. Operations, Logistics, Finance, Human Resources, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, etc

Based onsite working 4.5 days between the hours of 7am – 7pm (hours agreed at business discretion) any overtime is paid at a premium rate (25% Mon-Fri and 50% Sat-Sun)

You will be responsible for:

Producing and maintaining the mid to long term MPS (Master Production Schedule) for all the products across in the Broughton plant.

Updating tactical build plans, which are used to optimise production in the shorter term.

Calculating resource requirements, to ensure we have workload / workforce alignment

It is the Planning team who monitors the adherence to the build plan, whilst ensuring it is achievable.

What you will be doing:

Master Production Scheduling (MPS)

Tactical planning & work package monitoring

Capacity and resource calculations

Planning assumption agreement

Refinement and optimisation of the production build plans

Recovery planning

Scenario analysis

Compilation of key performance indicators (KPI’s) for reporting and monitoring of the business

Experience / Skills:

Experience of Production Scheduling / Production Planning ESSENTIAL

Ideally from an aviation/aerospace background, failing that any Manufacturing/Engineering experience

Any experience of using Google suite and similar digital tools (e.g MS Office)

Solid planning experience

Need a self-starter, someone who is motivated and will be able to hit the ground running

Excellent communicator with exceptional organisational skills

Proficiency in oral and written communication skills

Collaborating well within a team

Able to interface with other functions in a production environment

A keenness to learn and develop

A working knowledge of Python coding would also be an advantage