Planning & Warehouse Manager

Location: Melton Mowbray

Salary: £35k-£38k

My client is a well-established polymer manufacturer and are looking for a Planning & Warehouse Manager to join their team. They are looking for someone to effectively manage the whole planning process ensuring the consistent timely manufacture of high-quality materials and products to our customers specifications.

Planning & Warehouse Manager – Job Role:

• Ensuring effective coordination and liaison between the Planning, Sales, Customer Services, Technical, Engineering, and other departments.
• To efficiently tailor production planning, overcoming any material or labour constraints to best fit time and production demands and ensuring maximise utilisation of all resources
• To monitor capacity and, with either Production or Customer Service, take action to handle situations where capacity and load are not matched
• To provide management information on a regular basis
• To monitor and progress production to meet the order book requirements
• Ensure that the warehouse team perform to target standards in relation to safety, pick and label accuracy, stock counts and warehouse process compliance
• Manage the inventory of stock to include organising and managing the cycle and periodic stock takes in coordination with the finance department
• Manage production order kitting including liaison with Old Dalby staff on stock replenishment
• Monitor, review and ensure that materials are down dated correctly.

Planning & Warehouse Manager – Person Requirements:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and can work collaboratively with peers and colleagues
• Flexible to change priorities at short notice and work under pressure
• Detail conscious
• Computer literate Microsoft Office excel and SAP essential
• Previous experience of managing a team
• HSE qualification or sound operational knowledge