Production Planner Location: Winsford Salary: £35,000 – £45,000 (DOE) Monday to Friday 40 hours The Role An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Production Planner to join a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This position plays a key role in ensuring production operations run efficiently, with a strong focus on planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads to meet customer demand. You will be responsible for balancing production capacity, materials, and delivery schedules, ensuring orders are completed on time and operations run smoothly. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain production schedules in line with customer demand and operational capacity Coordinate with purchasing, inventory, and production teams to ensure materials are available when required Analyse order data, forecasts, and historical trends to plan production effectively Plan and coordinate transport schedules for deliveries using an internal fleet Liaise with production, logistics, and customer service teams to ensure delivery commitments are met Monitor work-in-progress and adjust plans to respond to changing priorities Communicate schedules and updates clearly across all relevant departments Identify and resolve scheduling conflicts, bottlenecks, and capacity constraints Produce reports on production performance, delays, and operational issues Support continuous improvement across planning and operati...