Materials Planner

We are a manufacturing company in Milton Keynes, who craft flexible fuel tanks for many industries. This includes motor sport, automotive, marine, aerospace, defence and aviation, to name a few!

We work with some world-famous brands and craft a safety product, meaning quality is of the utmost importance to us.

We will be actively interviewing and once the successful applicant has been offered, the role will be closed.

ATL do not offer Tier 2 Sponsorship. Applicants must have a right to work in the UK prior to application.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made during the application process, please get in contact with us either via email or telephone.

We are currently looking to recruit a Materials Planner on a Fixed Term Contract (3 months). This will involve ensuring the consistent and adequate supply of materials necessary for production, reporting all shortages or misaligned deliveries, updating and maintaining the ERP supplier database, and coordinating with other departments such as engineering, production, stores, and logistics to ensure that materials are available when needed.

Main Duties

• Determining the required materials and generating purchase orders.
• Analysis of MRP data to ensure the company is procuring material within cost constraints.
• Scheduling and overseeing the supply and delivery of materials and products, coordinating with the Stores team.
• Managing schedule changes, and cancellations as directed by the Planning Resource function.
• Reviewing inventory levels of materials and ordering additional quantities, when necessary, based on business requirements.
• Ensuring that materials are delivered on time.
• Monitoring costs associated with materials purchases and maintaining supplier records.
• Update daily production meeting with accurate material shortage information.
• Proactively update & maintain supplier contact details, costings and any other records.