Production Planner / Scheduler

Our client based in Derbyshire is currently looking to recruit a Production Planner to join their busy team. They are a commercial printer offering B2, B3, and Digital Print with mailing facilities.

Responsibilities:

• You must have an understanding of print and of the various print processes used in litho printing and finishing
• Ensure the effective processing and production of print and print related products through the company and to maintain the quality of product and quality of service at all times
• Ensure that work is planned and produced according to proposed and agreed scheduling maintaining a delivery performance of 95%
• Liaise with customer services in the processing and scheduling of work
• Monitor, check/verify production work throughout the company
• Work closely with and to support the Production Manager in ensuring the production work flow is working at it’s optimum at all times
• Ensure procedures are being followed and highlight any anomalies
• Purchase paper / stock / outwork / supplies for the company at the best rate
• Be pro-active in thinking through and thinking ahead therefore anticipating possible “pitfalls” and so avoiding them
• Ensure that you are following a practising all company procedures
• Help the production manager in creating a lean manufacturing environment
• Mailing experience desirable
• Knowledge of Optimus desirable

***Please supply CV in word rather than PDF***

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head 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 contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.