Production Scheduler

Role                     Production Scheduler
Based                  Stonehouse, GL10
Rate                     £16 - £18 p/h + 33 holidays (25days + 8BH)
Contract             12months+

Our client is seeking an experienced Production Scheduler to join the team in Stonehouse, GL10

The role will involve.
Generating detailed production schedules to meet established production targets.
 Reporting to the factory Planning & Fulfilment Manager and will focus on the Business Line planning.
The Production Scheduler will:

• Ensure product demand forecasts are kept up to date in ERP.
• Creates & maintain detailed production schedule to ensure Customer orders on time delivery.
• Manages load levelling and bottleneck scheduling considering constraints in production and supply.
• Analyse production floor status, review production schedule, and release manufacturing work orders
• Analyse daily, plant-level materials requirement planning (MRP), including exception messages, to create and manage production requirements.
• Ensuring that production planning master data and parameters are up to date in MRP.
• Establishes sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipment dates per the master schedule/plan.
• Prepares Capacity Plan, identifies capacity constraints, and recommends short- and long-term solutions and mitigation plans to remove bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Material Planners to ensure production schedule and supply plan are aligned and to fast react to any unplanned event.
• Works with customer service to provide appropriate Customer orders planned delivery dates.
• Monitors / identify key root causes for deviation and take improvement action.
• Issue material availability to P&F Manager and Customer Service Team 
• Interact with Sales /Production Planning 

Sound knowledge of SAP, Microsoft products. A collaborative, purposeful approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills.

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