Assembly Planner

Assembly Planner

The Assembly Planner is a key role within the production team, responsible for planning, coordinating, and monitoring assembly activities to ensure timely production, material availability, and effective coordination with suppliers and internal teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain assembly schedules based on production plans and priorities.
• Ensure assembly activities are aligned with material availability and capacity.
• Support colleagues by coordinating daily and weekly assembly plans.
• Produce paperwork to allow the assembly of parts and ensure jobs are kitted and passed on timely manner to cells.
• Track material and component deliveries from suppliers.
• Follow up with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery.
• Perform any other assembly planning–related tasks as assigned by management.
• Monitor the business system data and identify issues requiring attention such as late slow moving or errors.
• Support stock taking activities with count sheets and data entry.
• Comply with business policies and procedures.
• Cooperate with all other areas as when required.
• Control Waste stream management organising collections and deliveries and subsequent paperwork to ensure adherence to environmental requirements.

Additional Working Hours

Longer hours may be required during busy periods.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 25 Days Annual Leave Plus Bank Holidays
• Pension Contribution
• Life Insurance
• Eye Care Assistance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Company Events
• Wellbeing Incentives
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
• Online GP Service
• Employee Assistance Package
• Christmas Gifts

Requirements

• Able to understand & maintain the materials management system, ensuring that transactions are identified and that their status is accurate and up to date.
• To be production focused where availability and supply is essential.
• Must have the ability and confidence to stop processes if quality standards are not met, or if the safety of themselves or other people is in doubt.
• Strong excel skills.
• Confident communicator
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• ERP system experience mandatory
• Minimum English and maths at GCSE (or equivalent)