Process Planning Manager

at  Barrett Steel

ALL ABOUT US

C Roberts Steel are part of Barrett Steel Limited, the UK’s largest steel stockholder with over 150 years of heritage. Family owned, the group is made up of 30 sites and holds over 120,000 tonnes of steel stock. Barrett Steel is committed to providing innovative and exceptional service by continuously investing in the latest processing machinery and materials handling equipment. Customer needs and community support are at the heart of everything, ensuring Barrett Steel is always your local steel stockholder.

ALL ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Operations Director; the role of the CAD and Process Planning Manager is to manage and own the full process planning of all profile works including the management and leadership of the C Roberts CAD team. This is an extremely important role within the profiles division and requires a strong and dynamic individual who has the courage of their convictions to challenge both profile productions and the incoming Sales personnel. The ultimate responsibility is to ensure the process plan is structured to enable operations to achieve maximum efficiency and throughput, through careful capacity planning, organisation and communication via sales and production. The individual must finely balance the customer needs and requirements in line with production capacity and staffing ensuring that C Roberts is competitive with lead times and service delivery across the industry.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE

• Efficiently plan throughput directly proportional to demand and capability, ultimately aiming for cutting to be 24 hours ahead (where possible)
• Manage and organise the work streams in and out of CAD, ensuring all machines are nesting efficiently and evenly across Profiles.
• Manage the CAD team to ensure they are multi nesting, minimising waste and increasing plate utilisation, prioritising current off cuts over new plate.
• Communicate effectively with Profile Sales and Production regarding off cut stock levels and itemisation as well as ensuring correct grades are being nested where required.
• Be flexible in your approach to planning, allowing for urgent orders to be prioritised with minimal disruption, ensuring all departments are aware of said changes.
• Ensure the profile cutting deadlines are realistically planned and that the load planner is communicated to with respect to orders being delivered.
• Challenge production on the OEE and throughput, including time in motion should OEE reduce.
• Plan, advertise and distribute an accurate lead time, challenging operations management regarding machine and staff utilisation where necessary; Own the process and staffing.
• Attend all production meetings with lead times and urgent work for production and answers to any previous queries or issues.
• Attend and be effective in morning Ops/Sales meeting regarding urgent orders and queries, ensuring the appropriate actions are carried out.
• Attend and run the afternoon Ops meeting declaring the run to list, ultimately communicating any ‘not going’ orders to the load planner and sales, re planning accordingly.
• Support the nesting of urgent or difficult orders where necessary.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR THE ROLE:

• Experience in a similar high-profile management and planning role, ideally in the steel industry.
• Sigma Nest
• AS400 (or similar)
• Strong Microsoft Knowledge
• Excellent management, planning and reporting skills