# Assembly Planner

**Company**: Alcon
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q684825

**Apply**: https://www.alcon.co.uk/careers/assembly-planner/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9b29817a-172

## Description

## 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)

## Skills

### Required
- ERP system experience
- Excel skills
- Analytical skills
- Teamwork
- Communication

### Nice to have
- Materials management system
- Production planning
- Supply chain management