Planning Team Lead
We are seeking a Planning Team Lead to join our team in Killarney, Ireland.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of planners and be responsible for sales, inventory, and operational planning requirements to meet customer demand dates.
Main Responsibilities
* Develop sales, inventory, and operational planning requirements to meet customer demand dates while understanding capacity constraints and driving actions/solutions.
* Identify and drive strategies and processes within the team around material availability to satisfy manufacturing and customer requirements.
* Lead sales order review meetings to review planning and maintain customer on-time delivery.
* Develop a weekly Master Production Schedule, production planning reports, and shipping requirements.
* Anticipate subcontracting needs where a subcontract supply base exists, to manage capacity constraints.
* Understand pricing agreements with a subcontractor supply base.
* Schedule customer orders in line with material availability and production line manned capacity and work to customer requests.
* Materials management to ensure materials and spares are planned accurately, directly placing purchase orders and call-offs from suppliers against supplier agreements.
* Ensure raw materials are in place for production on time and resolve bottlenecks in supply to achieve on-time delivery.
* Manage the incoming flow of raw materials, monitoring incoming deliveries, inventory issues, material shortages to minimize the impact on production.
* Work closely with production operations line leads, supervisors, and management to develop and communicate production plans that ensure customer commitments are recognized.
* Deal with freight and duty invoices.
* Develop and maintain necessary records and documentation in compliance with ISO system requirements.
Requirements
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the capacity to adapt quickly to unforeseen work demands.
* Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
* Analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Self-starter who can work on their own initiative and as part of a team.
* Awareness of customer deliverables and impact of poor quality.
Candidate Profile
* Experience of production planning in a high-volume manufacturing environment, preferably make-to-order, or previous manufacturing operations experience.
* Qualified to certificate/diploma/degree level in a business or technical discipline or an appropriate combination of qualifications and work experience.
* Supervisory experience or experience of leading small group projects or activities is desirable.
* Experience of lean manufacturing philosophies and practices.
* Advanced user experience of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).