Production Planner

  • Contract
  • Department: Operations EMEA

Job Description

Job Description Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for production planning and customer satisfaction? We’re looking for a proactive Production Planner to lead the downstream supply chain, ensuring operational excellence and a seamless customer experience from order to delivery.

What you’ll do:

  • Create and manage detailed production schedules that align customer demand with operational efficiency
  • Raise work orders and manage MRP messages to deliver a streamlined production flow
  • Monitor schedule adherence, lead times, and COTD performance to drive continuous improvement
  • Own product master data and lifecycle phases in ERP, ensuring portfolio efficiency and cost control
  • Coordinate recovery plans for overdue orders and communicate resolution strategies
  • Reconcile the sales order book to ensure alignment across inventory, revenue, and customer expectations
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to build master production plans that optimize resources and shift patterns
  • Manage finished goods inventory policies and engineering change requests
  • Report on key supply chain metrics including OTD, inventory health, and cost drivers
  • Champion lean principles and deploy planning methodologies like infinite planning, flex planning, and MPS
  • Act as deputy to the Supply Chain Manager within the Rotork Management Operating System
  • Coach and support team members to deepen supply chain knowledge
  • Lead the SiOP process, owning demand planning and capacity alignment across a 3–18 month horizon

What you bring:

  • Strong production planning and ERP expertise
  • A data-driven mindset with a focus on efficiency and customer service
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and drive change
  • Passion for continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles
  • Join us and take ownership of a high-impact planning role that shapes customer satisfaction and operational success.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or with appropriate workplace experience/qualification.
  • Experience with, and sound knowledge of manufacturing supply-chain, planning and Lean methodology.
  • Strong data analysis and experience with an ERP system. Knowledge of Material Requirements Planning.
  • Use of common tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Power point.
  • Strong skills in problem solving and the ability to troubleshoot and resolve scheduling conflicts and resource constraints
  • Proficient in interpreting bills of materials and configured product structures

Desirable

  • APIC’s certified desirable.
  • 6 Sigma green belt trained and/or lean equivalent. Personal Specification: Essential
  • Excellent relationship management and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively.
  • Keen eye for detail and ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
  • Agile leadership with the ability to adapt to changing conditions and be a change agent
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