Junior Production Planner

Junior Production Planner
Our client are a manufacturing company based in Halifax who are seeing significant growth through out there business and due to this are looking to recruit for a Junior production planner.
We are looking for a candidate who has experience of working within a planning department previously or similar.

Duties
Liaises with sales department to determine customer requirements
Develops a production schedule detailing all tasks and when they should be completed by to meet predicted completion date
Liaises with the rest of the areas within Operations to ensure all workers, materials, and machinery will be available when required
Troubleshoots problems that occur during production, including staff shortages and machinery malfunctions
Organises paperwork and reports, ensuring all production orders are up to date.
Collects and assesses data about the production and team’s performance
Prepares reports about production processes for upper management and suggests ways to improve efficiency

Essential:

Strong organizational skills
Multitasking
Good knowledge of Excel, Outlook and Word
Working to deadlines
Attention to detail
Strong communicator
Strong desire to progress and learn new things
Problem solving
Analytical

Desirable:
Planning experience.
Planning software knowledge

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