Supply Chain Planner in Eastbourne, East Sussex

Supply Chain Planner

Eastbourne | Full-Time, Permanent | Competitive Salary and excellent benefits and career opportunity.

Are you an organised, analytical professional looking for your next step in production planning and scheduling?

Placr’s client is a successful precision engineering and manufacturing business looking for a Production Scheduler to take ownership of production schedules, coordinate across departments and help drive excellent on-time delivery.

The Role

• Manage forward-looking production schedules across manufacturing cells and production planning
• Coordinate with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain to agree delivery dates.
• Someone who can take ownership of the orders through the manufacturing process
• Monitor capacity, demand and potential production delays.
• Work closely with Cell Leaders to maintain on-time delivery.
• Maximise the use of ERP/order management systems and maintain clear order visibility.
• Identify priorities and critical issues, taking ownership through to resolution.
• Produce production and delivery performance reports and metrics.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in production planning, scheduling or a similar manufacturing environment.
• Ideally, a background within precision engineering, manufacturing or assembly.
• Strong Excel, ERP and systems knowledge; Microsoft Dynamics AX experience would be advantageous.
• Excellent organisational, analytical and communication skills.
• Confident decision-maker with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Able to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure.
• Degree educated or qualified through relevant experience.

Why Join?

You’ll be joining an established engineering business offering:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Flexible working hours and early finish on a Friday
• Private Medical Insurance
• Death in Service – 4 x salary
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Career development and progression opportunities
• A modern precision engineering environment
• The opportunity to make a real impact on production performance and customer delivery.

If you have production scheduling experience and a manufacturing, purchasing or precision engineering background, we’d like to hear from you. Apply with your CV today.