Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
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Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

SECONDMENT - FIXED TERM 12 MONTH CONTRACT

Do you have an interest in Purchasing and Planning? Would you like a role where you influence and network with different departments? Are you passionate about UK manufacturing and have a desire to be proactive within this field? Got your interest, then look no further…
We are looking for a MRP Planner in our Industrial planning team where you will be in charge of organising production and coordinating orders and manufacturing. You will be responsible for setting planning standards and overseeing plan performance.

• Representing Manufacturing for either a nominated programmes or group of programmes for New build products
• Act as a focal point for issues related to manufacturing on these nominated projects.
• Report as required on financial performance against agreed work packages.
• Represent Manufacturing as required in engineering forums and Programme reviews.
• Sign off required change requests and change notes. Contributing towards point of embodiment (POE) and cost decisions.
• Disseminate required information to other manufacturing Disciplines to enable them to perform their roles.
• Enter Demands onto the MRP system ensuring that load and capacity issues are understood and managed through Oracle Workbench.
• Action and monitor the recommendations of the MRP tool. Release purchased and manufactured items to the appropriate area of the business.
• Maintain the MRP output, monitoring supply and demand across the domain, using Oracle Workbench.
• Oversee or Produce final deliverable build record for each New Build delivery.
• Play a leading role to Co-ordinate in conjunction with the manufacturing and planning manager in meeting deliveries in line with agreed quality, cost and delivery dates.
• Identify, evaluate and implement opportunities for improvement
• Ensure the regular progress of items either manufactured or purchased to ensure delivery schedules are achieved.
• Contribute to the generation of cost estimates for new build products.
• Assist Planning manager in defining training needs of the department.
• Contribute towards load and capacity planning, ensuring issues are highlighted in advance.