Production Planner/Expeditor

Confident, Production Planner/Expeditor immediately required for successful manufacturing company based near Dudley Working with a production costing between £3-4 million pounds, the role will be reporting directly to the Manufacturing Manager Forecasting, Scheduling, Making Decisions, Planning and Material Control for the business. Other main duties of the role are: * Planning and scheduling: Planning and organising the production of a company's products. * Co-ordination between sales, design / production to ensure customer deliveries are achieved. * Identifying issues: Detecting and resolving issues as they arise * Improving processes: Finding ways to improve productivity and reduce costs * Communicating: Working with other employees and suppliers to ensure the production process runs smoothly * Reporting: Creating status and performance reports and presenting them to managers * Complying with regulations: Ensuring compliance with health and safety standards and workplace legislation * Estimate project needs for manpower, equipment, and raw materials * Manage project paperwork * Ensure that correct robust data is recorded onto the MRP system * Managing material and equipment availability, scheduling production and monitoring the production process for problems * Responsible for daily upkeep of databases, expediting workloads from the technical office, for on time delivery / issuing. * Correct planning of the production facility capacities. * Responsibility for managing the NCR’s planning and correct data recording against the correct sales order number. The right candidate must * Be an experienced production planner * Have strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. * Able to work effectively with cross-functional teams. * Minimum of 2 years supervisory responsibility in a metal working / fabrication shop environment. * Be able to read technical drawings. * I.T. literacy is essential, with experience of Microsoft Word / Excel, must be conversant with production scheduling / MRP software