Production Planner / Scheduler

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies on an ongoing basis.
More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature. It is therefore in your interest to email your CV, as a Word document, depending on your sector, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Print recruitment – Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Head of Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk
• Board level, account management, and all levels of sales vacancies – George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector. For example, a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management. In fact, we have over 30 specialist categories.
Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or in the near future as soon as a good match to your skill set and experience becomes available.

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Our client, a highly successful operator in their sector, is looking to recruit a Production Planner / Scheduler. The success applicant will be responsible for the planning and smooth running of the production process, meeting both internal and external customer expectations and ensuring all jobs are managed within the agreed timescales, commercials and escalate failures internally.

Responsibilities:

•Work within an existing commercial / production team
•Assisting/Running daily production meetings
•Planning daily production schedules to meet customer requirements
•Liaising with internal sales team for scheduling and planning
•Liaising with internal departmental heads for maintaining schedule
•Managing all internal customer expectations in relation to production
•Ensuring all raw materials are delivered in line with production schedules

Ideal Candidate will possess the following experience:

•Experience in print – operational print / digital & litho
•Experience in Tharsterns MIS / Electronic planning
•Competent in all Microsoft packages
•Good communication skill and attention to detail
•Commercial exposure and experience

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Similar Commercial Print Production Planner/Scheduler jobs we handle:
• Commercial Print Senior Production Planner
• Commercial Print Planning Manager
• Commercial Print Operations Planner
• Commercial Print Scheduling Manager