Overview
Waters Wilmslow are looking for a Production Planner to work within the Operations team supporting the daily business needs and supporting the supply of our vital equipment.
Within this role you will support Wilmslow manufacturing output, shipments to field service engineers and ensure customers needs are managed and met. Handling the Planning of all In house manufactured spares and options supply plans. Maintaining materials availability to support absorption forecast and field demand.
Completing inventory to support instruments, spare parts and options are handled efficiently and in line with departmental budgets and forecasts.
We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We strive to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.
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Responsibilities
Production Planning
- Interpret and action instrument build plans, demand and supply signals in APO.
- Ensure manufacturing output targets are handled and met.
- Monitor Inventory to support instrument spares and options in line with department budgets and forecasts.
- Handle flow of manufacturing WIP between the warehouse and all Wilmslow work centres.
- Ensure accurate ATP lead times.
- Ensure customer critical issues are handled optimally.
- Build and maintain adherence to non instrument absorption in line with company targets.
Financial
- Departmental Budgets (Preparation & Adherence)
System Management
- Build maintain & lead inventory plans in support of the Instrument & spares business throughout the corporation.
- Handle Supply plans in ECC and APO.
Qualifications
To be successful you will:
- Maintain the efficiency of the Quality System at the sites via adherence to applicable policies and procedures.
- Complete Quality System related actions in a timely manner.
- Practised in the application of SOP processes, MRP II and Demand and supply management.
- Experience of driving inventory reduction and improvement of customer on time delivery.
- Able to chair regular meetings with work centre managers and purchasing.
- Financial savvy.
- Ability to work in a constantly evolving environment where requirements and demand change at regular intervals.
If you feel you meet some but not all of the above, please do apply as we offer excellent training and development within Waters.
In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days holidays, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Waters Wilmslow:
People create the Waters difference. By engaging with our talented and diverse workforce we continuously evolve, develop and enhance our products. Being the world's leading speciality measurement company, we believe in delivering innovative technology and system solutions to our valued customers to enable their success. At Wilmslow, our focus is on the development and delivery of mass spectrometry systems and software in a collaborative and dynamic team environment.
Our mass spectrometers deliver benefit to customers in many industries and make a meaningful impact to our lives through examples such as
- Neo-natal screening to keep babies healthy
- Ensuring consistent, reliable safety in our global food and water supply
- Developing new medicinal therapies to advance human health
- Ensuring participants in the world's sporting events compete fairly