Production Planning Administrator

Rewards and Benefits on Offer;

• Option to work a 4 or 5 day week
• Competitive pension contribution
• Dayshift hours
• Opportunity to gain experience across all aspects of the business to develop your skills
• Working with various prestigious blue-chip customers on a daily basis

Working Hours:

• 39 hours, Mon – Thurs
• 7am – 5:15pm

MTrec’s New Opportunity;

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious manufacturing client based in Newcastle, by recruiting an Engineering Administrator to join their team. You will be joining a rapidly growing company with an excellent team-based culture and fantastic opportunities for training and to progress your career.

If you have a background in manufacturing/engineering in an administrative or planning role, please apply now for an immediate response.

The Job You’ll Do;

• Planning, organising and controlling activities of production.
• Responsible for production plan preparation based on forecasts, stock positions and orders.
• Ensures compliance with specification, company policies and procedures, rules and regulations including welfare, H&S, quality (ISO 9001) and environment (ISO 1400).
• Resource management within the production area including reporting on performance and attendance of the resource to the General Manager.
• Maintaining profitable and efficient throughput of production items in accordance with specifications (including packaging and transport).
• Liaising with the quality department, the General Manager and Project and Tooling Manager (as necessary).
• Any additional duties that the General Manager deems appropriate to the job role and to assist the business.
• Assisting the General Manager with forecasting and production planning discussing any present or future business volume, including adjustments of shipping commitments due to production constraints.
• Reviewing and approving monthly production schedule for the month execution of production plan.
• Providing accurate daily reports on produced items, rejects and scrap.
• Liaising with the Procurement and Production Co-ordinator to ensure that records are accurate and up to date daily.
• Identifying manpower forecasts, then allocating workload per employee with Supervisors to satisfy customer needs and to meet delivery schedules.
• Reviewing and assisting in any disciplinary action, leave application, overtime work, employee and Supervisor reporting, ISO documents and other matters related to employee's compensation.

About You;

• Experience within an admin or planning, role within manufacturing, production or engineering
• Ability to use Microsoft Office package (Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems (desirable)
• Confident and professional being the first point of contact for customers.
• Good organisational and communication skills at all levels.
• Ability to work in a changing and flexible organisation, adapting quickly to change where necessary.
• High attention to detail