Production Planner

Ibstock plc is a market leading manufacturer and partner of choice for innovative clay and concrete building products, building the face of Britain for over 200 years. We're no ordinary manufacturing business. Through our principal products of clay bricks, brick components, concrete roof tiles, concrete stone masonry substitutes, concrete fencing, pre-stressed concrete products and concrete rail products, we're committed to providing new solutions to today's social and environmental challenges for the new build housing and domestic repair, maintenance, improvement markets (RMI) and infrastructure. Many of our long-standing customer relationships have lasted over 40 years. Our customer focus is based on quality, service and consistency and our service-led ethos is one of the key drivers in the growth of our market share over the past 10 years. This role is primarily concerned with advising the portfolio of manufacturing plants within your area, of the necessary product output, based on the production plan, which in turn is driven by sales. You will have significant demonstrable experience of planning production output, liaising with the Factory Managers, ensuring the correct products are produced in the correct order and in a timely fashion, there is also significant contact with your internal customers ensuring that orders are met in an appropriate timescale. You will, through liaison with the sites, monitor stock levels for our range of products, and the impact on the production plan. This will allow you to advise colleagues of the availability of products, and also to determine which products will be needed. You will probably be in a similar role, in a process based industry, such as food. You will demonstrate your problem solving mind set and your initiative, your analytical skills will be evident as will your use with MS Office. If successful, you will receive a competitive salary package (dependent on experience) and a package of benefits commensurate with the role.