Vicketstock are working in partnership with an ambitious manufacturing client based in Coleraine on the appointment of a Production Scheduler. Having continued to develop and grow year on year both organically and through acquisition with their products now available in over 50 countries. They aspire to be a truly global, people invested, market leader in their field.

Whats in it for you?

• Salary of up to £30k (depending on experience)
• Life assurance
• Healthshield cash plan
• Pension
• Opportunity to develop and progress in to more senior roles internally

In your new role:

• Provide real time co-ordination and optimisation of materials and production schedules within the immediate horizon
• Create and maintain production schedules to ensure all company goals are achieved and deadlines are met
• Reduce costs and increase efficiency and productivity by creating effective schedules
• Develop a strong understanding of the production processes and be able to generate and maintain effective daily and weekly schedules
• Solve conflicts, seek to improve processes, and help fulfil company and manufacturing expectations
• Idea generation geared toward moving to automated system driven solutions
• Design, develop and document the detailed scheduling processes
• Being the key support to manufacturing on daily operational deliverance, optimising, and balancing production lines for the best financial outcome
• Ensuring planned targets are met by creating and managing daily scheduling processes
• Provide visibility of production schedules and production order status to all internal stakeholders, and the corrective actions taken in recovering arrears and unscheduled stoppages
• Generate reports and schedules through the applicable applications
• Continual tracking of actual performance data against plan to ensure corrections can be made to keep on course
• Assess work orders, evaluate, address and flag variances, updating MRP master data where necessary
• Feed in to the strategic and tactical supply plans as needed to support the Eakin Business Planning process
• Provide timely responses to all stakeholder queries and requests.
• Liaise with Procurement team to alleviate any material constraints and provide visibility of future material requirements
• Liaise with Logistics & Warehousing to review and alleviate any space constraints and issues affecting OTIF delivery to customers
• Interface with wider Supply Planning team, Production and Demand Management to ensure on time delivery of our customers' orders
• Support the improvement of processes and/or systems
• Recording and reporting of Supply Planning KPIs as requested by Supply Planning Manager
• Supporting monthly S&OP process, facilitating site capability reviews and data gathering as required
• Monitor slow moving, short expiry, and obsolete FG stock at site, and liaise with Demand Management and wider operations team to minimise
• Supporting Supply Planning and wider business continuous improvement projects and objectives
• Supporting the review and maintenance of key planning parameters for FG and sub assembly SKUs
• Supporting R&D process with scheduling of new product introductions and trials

What you will need to succeed:

• Experience in production scheduling via a scheduling application, not excel
• Ability to create and understand reports to make production decisions
• A high standard of IT Skills
• GSCE's (or equivalent) in Maths and English
• The ability to solve problems proactively and an effective decision maker

For a confidential conversation on how Vickerstock can support you with your next move, give the team a call on 028 9031 3720.