Job Title: Production Planning Manager
Location: York, YO32 9PT
Salary: £50,000- £60,000 (Depending on experience)
Annual Leave: 25 days plus bank holidays
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Production Planning Manager to join the Portakabin business at our Head Office in York. As a Production Planning Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing all production planning activities at York New build & refurbished, providing high customer service, minimal operational disruption caused by in house materials shortages and optimizing inventory levels. This includes (but is not limited to) being in charge of generating and optimizing the short and long term capacity plan aligned with Manufacturing and customer service principles; additionally, as the manager you will lead continuous improvement and transformation to the current process and systems while leading a team of production schedulers.
As a Production Planning Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Ensure in house production materials are available on time to deliver York site production output, via ensuring implementation of MRP policy, review of MRP lights, release of production orders within capacity for each work centre, follow the right escalation process and action to mitigate shortages and risks.
- Liaise daily with the manufacturing team to eliminate bottlenecks and assembly issues; it includes monitoring and reporting the position of each manufacturing area against the schedule.
- Lead and manage the weekly production plan sign off process for York New build across all areas, working on exceptions and tracking production plan performance to ensure appropriate plans are put in place to deliver against target.
- Manage collaborative relationships with various stakeholders from the business, acting as an operation process lead with can-do-attitude and positive mind set, initiating and leading continuous improvement actions that would enable more efficient execution of the business plans and supply chain strategy.
- Initiate and lead actions to optimise production planning, improve OLE and schedule adherence, reduce slow movers’ inventory for in house produced materials and reduce direct reports firefighting.
- Lead Supply Review within the S&OP process, ensuring a capacity plan is agreed for the next 2 Fiscal years and clear action plan defined to close gaps between requirements vs capacity for each of the production areas.
- Lead, develop and manage Production Planning team, producing personal development plans, increasing and managing performance, ensuring the team has the right structure, skills level, standard processes and accountability.
- Create employee engagement initiatives: aimed to create a positive work environment and boost employee motivation and commitment.
For the full list of responsibilities for this role, please view our role profile here.
Benefits & Opportunities
- Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
- Contributory pension
- Annual bonus
- A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
- Employee Assistance Program
- A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
- Fully funded professional qualifications and membership
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Benefits Program (Discounts at 100s of shops, gyms, restaurants and even holidays!)
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who has:
- Understanding of Production and Supply Chain methodology and strategy
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerical related discipline
- Solid understanding of Materials Resource Planning procedures, production planning, finite scheduling, capacity planning and S&OP
- Significant experience in a similar role in a manufacturing, supply chain environment
- Proven ability to initiate and lead process improvement, influencing stakeholders positively.
- Delivered and led change, to optimize processes and increase efficiencies.
- Customer centric focus
- Analytical skills
Even if you do not match all our ‘ideal’ criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.
We are conducting interviews during, or before, the week commencing Monday 23rd September 2024.
About Portakabin
As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education, and health to transport, utilities, and construction.
Portakabin now employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Portakabin is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made. If you are having any difficulty applying, please contact our recruitment team on resourcing@portakabin.com.
