Role: Production Planner Location: Cheltenham 8am - 4.45pm (8am - 12.30pm Friday) Benefits: flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking. Overview: Responsible for managing the work orders across the machine shop including creating, reviewing, monitoring progress with production and workcentre capacity. Role includes an active involvement with the reviewing, setting and ongoing maintenance of the inventory model linking closely with the wider planning team and also in calculating requirements for new projects. Responsibilities: Ensure business system (MRP signals and/or Cognos reports currently) are actioned daily and both machines and workcentres planned effectively to meet the demand requirements. Review the production plan with the production team to aim to achieve a balance of productivity and efficiency with delivering what is required when it is needed. Ensure all shortages are reviewed, progressed and escalated accordingly with the machine shop planning administrator, and seek to identify the root cause analysis for these shortages. Be able to discuss with production to jointly deliver the daily / weekly production plans and monitor daily performance against plan....