Material planner

Job Description

Jenrick Engineering, powered by Auxo Group, specializes in sourcing and placing top-tier technical, operations, engineering, and projects staff for manufacturing clients across the UK. With a focus on FMCG, Automotive, General Manufacturing, and Logistics & Automated Distribution, we aim to attract top talent and retain them for long-term impact. From our offices in Derby and Northampton, we deliver candidates in various sectors including General Manufacturing, Aerospace, Rail, and more.\n\nHybrid role, can be up to 4 days from working at home\n\nPay on hourly basis £16.15 \n\nShifts Monday-Friday\n\nAs a Material planner your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:\n\n- Daily review of materials planning panels to ensure supply is aligned with demand.\n - Release of new whole goods purchase orders to ensure products will be available in time.\n - Review of supplier order boards and update planning systems with relevant data.\n - Manage change requests for purchase orders and re-schedule to meet better lead time.\n - Provide accurate information to Customer order management teams so they can align\n planning dates.\n - Frequently join end 2 end planning team meetings to review open order boards.\n - Maintain good communication with plant account teams to ensure we are provided with\n accurate lead time information.\n\nPerforms supply and demand analysis, highlighting areas of concern for the next 12 months.\n Assists others in gathering and compiling information through primary and secondary research.\n Runs planning parameter setting changes in the simulation environment to analyze the impact to KPIs, and provides executive and detailed report of results.\n Monitors signals indicating abnormal demand and/or stock levels feeding the supply schedule.\n Makes adjustments to the planning parameter settings if approved