Production Planner Lead

Production Planning Lead

Location:

Wednesbury, West Midlands
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Hours:

Monday – Thursday 7:00am – 4:00pm, Friday 8:00am – 1:00pm (39 hours per week)
Salary: £32,000 – £35,000 + bonus

Step into a pivotal role where your expertise can truly shine. As a Production Planning Lead, you will be joining a well-established manufacturing business in Wednesbury, renowned for its high-quality products and state-of-the-art machine shop. With over 50 years of industry leadership, the company continues to expand, offering a dynamic and forward-thinking environment.

In this role, your skills will be essential to the smooth running of production processes. You will be responsible for detailing materials, machines, labour, and time requirements for jobs, ensuring that quality standards are consistently met.

The role is primarily office-based but includes regular interaction with the shopfloor. This will involve monitoring throughput, addressing issues such as staff or material shortages and machinery breakdowns, and running daily update meetings with the production team.

You will build strong relationships across the business, many of whom have long service within the company. Confidence in questioning processes and strong Excel skills for planning and reporting are essential.

Key Responsibilities

* Plan and detail production equipment, raw materials (building BOMs), and labour requirements

* Submit reports on throughput and production progress

* Identify priority orders and plan accordingly to meet customer requirements

* Work with management to resolve production issues, setbacks, or quality concerns

* Support the Purchasing team in anticipating raw material requirements

* Facilitate meetings to review contracts, discuss new production methods, and identify ways to reduce production costs

* Prepare, complete, and file production paperwork in line with ISO 9001 quality procedures

* Support other administrative tasks relating to production planning and operations as required

About You

* Minimum of 5 years’ experience in production planning within a fast-paced manufacturing environment

* Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across departments including Engineering, Quality, Production, and Purchasing

* Strong Excel skills and confidence working with production data

* Ability to build strong relationships with operators and production teams

* Highly organised, flexible, and comfortable working in a busy environment

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing manufacturing business in a key operations role where your planning expertise will have a direct impact on production efficiency and process improvement