Production Planner - County Waterford

Job DescriptionProduction Planner - County WaterfordRef No: AM18330County Waterford, Republic of IrelandCompetitive salary Production Planner - County Waterford.JOB SUMMARY• As Supply Chain Planner you will be responsible for planning, scheduling, inventory, and may perform work in a specific sub-specialty in Inventory Planning and Control or Operations.Key Responsibilities: • Manage the Master Planning Schedule for the work-cell on a weekly, monthly and annual basis to include equipment, resources and processes.• Planning the Production required (Rough Cut Capacity and MPS) according to assembly line production schedules, current inventory, customer orders and forecasts.• Maintaining and continuously improving current SAP parameters / configurations.• Planning, scheduling, co-ordinating and giving final approval of the master schedule of products through the complete production cycle.• Continuously monitor production issues and assess them in a timely manner and make necessary changes to meet business requirements.• Liaise with stakeholders to re-schedule production to support business.• Support business execution of new programs and initiatives.• Monitor key performance indicators, analyse cost and co-ordinate cross-functional work teams to increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.• Assist with development of metrics to assess and improve forecast accuracy.• Assist with the development and implementation of department standards, practices, procedures and policies to ensure the accuracy of inventory records.• Assist in Lean based projects to improve processes in Supply Chain.• Support all company safety and quality programs and initiatives.• Ensure ongoing compliance with GMP in all practices, recording of events and processes.• Ensure compliance with all learnings from all GMP training events.Interested applicants should have:• Degree qualified desirable (not essential), with ideally additional qualifications in the area of supply chain management, logistics and/or planning.• At least 3-5 years’ experience of supply planning.• Strong understanding of forecasting, MPS, and MRP.• Experience of SAP an advantage.