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About The Position

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or with appropriate workplace experience/qualification.
• Strong data analysis and ERP subject matter expert.
• Experience with, and sound knowledge of manufacturing supply-chain, planning and Lean methodology.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, relationship management, with the ability to work collaboratively.
• Able to think strategically and translate the strategy into operational performance.
• Experience of leading change and delivering results.
• Use of common tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Power point.

Nice To Haves

• APIC’s certified desirable.
• 6 Sigma green belt trained and/or lean equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Create infinite schedules to achieve customer on-time delivery and maximise efficiencies within production.
• Responsible for raising the work orders and managing MRP messages.
• Manages the work orders cycle daily through production, resolving issues.
• Create master production plans, optimising machine efficiencies, resource availability and shift patterns.
• Manages all finished goods stocking policies, inventory levels and engineering change requests.
• Ownership of product lead times, providing customers with consistency, deliverable lead times.
• Co-Ordinate the SiOP process, analyse data, identifying changes in demand and supply.
• Taking ownership for the supply planning, ensuring forecasts can be achieved with the capacity available.
• Communicate proposed resource and investment requirements, identifying any key risks to supply.
• Own the product master list and life cycle phase, taking action for managing the product portfolio to deliver the customer requirements and minimise associated costs.
• Implement visual queue management planning techniques and build a capacity flex plan with production.
• Accountable for Supply Chain metrics, performance, and root cause countermeasures.
• Responsible for all Supply Chain department costs, including OEE, factory efficiency, over time, subcontract costs, finished goods premium freight and external storage.
• Responsible for the management of the product master data within the ERP system.
• Lead the deployment of lean methodology.