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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
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Role: Planning & Operational Specialist

Location: Cheltenham

8am - 4.45pm (8am - 12.30pm Friday)

Benefits: flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking.

Overview: To create, review and manage the assembly production plan for your designated lines, working with the production teams to supply all demand in line with the customer requirements. The role includes an active involvement with new projects, the calculation of existing and new stock levels and process design / review within the department.

Responsibilities: Planning & Operational Specialist

  • Fully understand, review and action MRP messages based on an appropriate degree of analysis of the supply and demand situation.
  • To manage the release of sales order demand with the aim of balancing customer requirements with production capabilities.
  • Review items as part of the regular Inventory modelling (IQM) process and be able to interpret and recommend the ideal inventory settings and key opportunities to optimize the inventory level e.g. batch size adjustment, lead-time reduction
  • Manage all product sales lead-times aiming to maintain on time to customer requested dates while maintaining the ability to deliver product on time to commitment.
  • Review the supply of component parts daily, progressing any key shortages and seeking all possible resolutions which includes, but is not restricted to, suggesting alternative products, shuffling production priorities and identifying substitute components.
  • Creation and management of the assembly production plans for your assembly lines and close cooperation with production teams to meet the required deadlines, ensuring the plan is correctly prioritized and any issues are promptly resolved.
  • Update all daily and weekly reports required to support customer service and business reporting. This includes, but is not restricted to the Orderbook report and Demand Resource Simulator file (DRS)
  • Complete all other requests from other teams including product quotes, sample and modification actions, scrap note approvals, order status updates and revised promise dates
  • Support New Product Introductions, continuous improvement programs and any other projects that require planning support
  • Provide detailed quotes for large order demands based on production planning logic and process
  • Cover for other members of the team when they are out of the office and provide support for any activity reasonably requested by the Assembly Planning Team Leader

Requirements: Planning & Operational Specialist

  • Relevant Planning experience in a production environment
  • Experience with MRP Tools & processes
  • Experience analysing large datasets to identify supply, demand, and inventory trends that inform planning decisions (desirable)
  • Hands on experience using data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel modelling) to improve forecasting accuracy and operational efficiency (desirable)

For further details, please contact Nick Sollis – 01453 829767 or email your cv [email protected]

Omega Resource Group are an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Oil & Gas, Construction and Manufacturing sectors.

We are always seeking Engineering Staff, Senior Managers, Skilled and Semi-Skilled Machinists, Mechanical Fitters, Electrical Fitters, Quality Engineers, Materials Science Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Electronics Engineers, Test Technicians, Technical Authors and Laboratory Technicians to name but a few.

Omega is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors.

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