Production Planning Engineer

Location: Cambridgeshire

Purpose

You will be required to create and maintain the master planning as required to meet a repeatable and robust manufacturing processes to ensure optimum works order (sequence) and work centre performance.

Key Responsibilities

General and Task Management

- Provide Manufacturing Information Sheets, route cards, bill of materials, building planning structure and manufacturing specification data in accordance with company standards.

- Using the Evolution MRP system to create routing and bill of materials (BoM).

- Specify material requirements, parameters and define suitable methods of manufacture and identify and implement required tooling and equipment.

- Create test specifications and manufacture of composite test samples, including the rework of test parts for production use.

-Develop processes to a production steady state standard that meets specification and design intent.

- Support change control reviews.

- Support Production and Quality Assurance in resolving production problems and nonconformances.

- Utilise Lean Principles to improve the product, process flow, build cycle and waste reduction.

- Train employees on new process, applications, and manufacturing specification data

Self-Management

- Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the Company Handbook, Quality and

- Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures

- Proactively contribute to creating a good team atmosphere

- Anticipates and overcomes obstacles

- Makes useful links to arrive at insightful plans and solutions

- Embraces personal challenge

- Confident, rounded thinking

- Takes ownership for team cohesion

- Is resilient, optimistic and open to change

Key Performance Measures

- Safety

- Quality

- Cost

- Delivery

Knowledge, Education, and Skills

Knowledge:

- It is essential you have the ability to read and understand technical drawings, specifications and related

- Documentation and to have enough grasp of the manufacturing materials (Composites), systems and processes to be able to conduct your duties.

Education & Professional experience

- Desirably degree educated in Engineering, Science, Business or a related field

- Previous experience of using an MRP system is essential

Skills and competencies

- Selfsupervising within the expectations management

- Thorough understanding of manufacturing processes

- Understanding of engineering, scientific and other technical information

- Understanding of lean manufacturing

- Ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment

- Planning and prioritising activities

- Good communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to present data effectively

- Problem solving skills

- Analytical skill

- Ability to work to deadlines

- MRP knowledge and understanding

Key Relationships & Interaction (Required)

Internal Relationships & Interactions:

- Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Manufacturing Engineers, Production Managers, Design Engineering, Quality Engineering

External Relationships & Interactions:

- OEMs, 3rd party resource, equipment or service providers