Production Controller

at  Safran

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.
At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world’s biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world’s largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!
In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.
The purpose of this role is to support production by the timely provision of relevant paperwork and managing of shortages, providing full visibility to both production and logistics of manufacturing and kitting needs.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for internal planning by work centre. Analyse demand and capacity to achieve optimum work centre load
• Responsible to monitor Production adherence against plan, work closely with Operations team to ensure alignment and execution of plan.
• Take ownership and drive continuous improvement of internal KPI’s, understanding any deviations.
• Responsible to drive and develop recovery plans within the internal Operational Team where appropriate.
• Own and manage ERP planning parameters
• Responsible to confirm MPS/MRP demand in line with Business System.
• Accountable to coordinate the inputs to Production. To monitor production progress against scheduling and intervene as when required to bring deliveries back in line with schedule
• Work with Supply Chain on anticipated material availability concerns and ensure internal suppliers maintain continuity of supply.
• Investigate MPS/MRP anomalies, ascertain root cause and implement corrective actions
• Monitors and maintain inventory WIP levels on shop floor to ensure alignment with demand.
• Responsible in the participation of annual Company stock take activities by validating material variances.
• Actively participates in One Safran/CI/Lean projects
• Be involved in planning introduction of new products (NPI), by participating in cross functional meetings.
• Attend weekly CCB meetings to determine the impact to Production. To action stock dispositions within the Business system taking into consideration, cost implications of rework and resources, whilst ensure MRP demand is accurate.

• Responsible for internal planning by work centre. Analyse demand and capacity to achieve optimum work centre load
• Responsible to monitor Production adherence against plan, work closely with Operations team to ensure alignment and execution of plan.
• Take ownership and drive continuous improvement of internal KPI’s, understanding any deviations.
• Responsible to drive and develop recovery plans within the internal Operational Team where appropriate.
• Own and manage ERP planning parameters
• Responsible to confirm MPS/MRP demand in line with Business System.
• Accountable to coordinate the inputs to Production. To monitor production progress against scheduling and intervene as when required to bring deliveries back in line with schedule
• Work with Supply Chain on anticipated material availability concerns and ensure internal suppliers maintain continuity of supply.
• Investigate MPS/MRP anomalies, ascertain root cause and implement corrective actions
• Monitors and maintain inventory WIP levels on shop floor to ensure alignment with demand.
• Responsible in the participation of annual Company stock take activities by validating material variances.
• Actively participates in One Safran/CI/Lean projects
• Be involved in planning introduction of new products (NPI), by participating in cross functional meetings.
• Attend weekly CCB meetings to determine the impact to Production. To action stock dispositions within the Business system taking into consideration, cost implications of rework and resources, whilst ensure MRP demand is accurate