Role: Material Planner
Salary: £19.62 Per Hour (PAYE)
Location: Hybrid Role - 2 Days Per Week On Site In Daventry.
Duration: Initial 9 Month Contract - Potential To Extend
Shifts: Start Between 7am-9am / Finish Between 3pm-5pm (37.5 Hour Week)
Wanted: Material Planner to ensure materials are available to pick in accordance with warehouse requests. Helping to meet or exceed inventory targets. Communicate problem parts or supplier issues to supervision & management. This position reports directly to the Materials Planner Supervisor.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set & maintain planning parameters which support the business environment.
- Liaise with suppliers regarding delivery time & part availability.
- Communicate known problems upwards to supervision & management.
- Develop inventory profile for all parts under planner control.
- Ensure appropriate use of Oracle tools responding to all workbench exceptions within the permitted timescales.
- Use of measurement tools for inventory/supply base effectiveness.
- Maintenance of Oracle safety stock levels as business dictates.
- Manage the process for parts under deviation.
- Control the process for parts which have had short ship notes raised.
- Develop improvement programmes with all key suppliers - inventory, on time delivery, lead times, batch sizes etc.
- Work to eliminate discrepant material arriving at the warehouse.
- Manage the allocation of supply between production & service & highlighting areas of constraint.
- Liaise with goods receiving & warehouse re supply of urgent parts.
- Be the front-line person to liaise with the supplier & any supplier improvements required
Support phase in/phase out of supplier resources.
Skills & Experience Needed:
- Material Planning experience required.
- Good communication skills.
- Good Excel skills.
- IT literate (MS office).
- Excellent organisational & prioritisation abilities.
- Logistics/material flow background is a plus.
- Knowledge on MRP planning systems is a plus.
- Oracle experience not required (bonus).
Interested? Send your CV to James Harris at The One Group to discuss the further details