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MRD Recruitment is hiring a Planner for our manufacturing client, based in Wolverhampton. The Planner will report into the Planning Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, people centric Planner based in Wolverhampton, to join an energetic team within a growing business.

As a Planner based in Wolverhampton, you will play a crucial role in creating and altering production schedules, working with key stakeholders within the business. My manufacturing client, based in Wolverhampton is looking for a Planner, who is passionate about planning production operations and can be reactive to changes.

Key Responsibilities for the Planner based in Wolverhampton:

• Identifies and develops solutions to meet customer order needs
• Ensures all recording on systems, MI and administration is accurate
• Ensure priorities, goals and deadlines are met to budget and detailed work plan is produced for the departments
• Pro-actively co-ordinates with site management to ensure issued addressed before impact
• Develops and maintains positive and effective working collaboration with site and functional managers
• Provides regular and ad hoc reports, feedback and intervention to ensure site goals are delivered OTIF
• Produces accurate workflows ensuring maximised productivity
• Ensures own familiarity and compliance with company policies and procedures, standards of operation and safe operating procedures
• Keeps and maintain appropriate records as required
• Provides consistent, flexible and timely attendance at work
• Is flexible to meet company operating requirements
• Provides pro- and re-active and supportive verbal and written communication to team members, peers and managers

Key Qualifications/Skills for the Planner based in Wolverhampton:

• Results driven and knowledge of Production.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to identify and process data trends and patterns
• Highly self-motivated and commercially astute and results driven with outstanding attention to detail and accuracy
• You will be an effective communicator, who can build strong working relationships
• Proactive approach/right first-time attitude
• Attentive to detail with good strategic ability
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills
• Knowledge of Excel