Production & Purchasing Administrator (Manufacturing)
Location: Dronfield, Derbyshire
Salary: £26,000–£30,000 DOE
Hours: Full‑time, Monday to Friday
Contract: Permanent
We’re a growing manufacturing company in Dronfield looking for an experienced Production Administrator / Purchasing Administrator to support production planning, document control and purchasing in a busy factory environment. If you’ve worked in a production office, manufacturing admin, planning, purchasing or document control, this could be your ideal next step.
What you’ll do
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Prepare and update production schedules, work orders and production packs for the shop floor.
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Issue drawings, specs and documents, making sure the latest revisions are used and filed correctly (SharePoint).
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Raise and process purchase orders, chase confirmations and deliveries, and keep trackers up to date.
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Support basic finance admin such as invoice creation, matching and monitoring (Xero).
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Provide general production office administration data entry, filing, scanning, calls and emails.
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Maintain Excel reports for production, purchasing and stock, and liaise with production, quality, warehouse and accounts to resolve queries.
What you’ll bring
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Experience in a manufacturing / production environment in an admin, production office, planning or document control role (essential).
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Background in purchasing, procurement admin, order processing or invoice admin is a plus.
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Confident with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams and happy using SharePoint.
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Strong attention to detail, highly organised and able to juggle multiple deadlines.
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Clear communicator, team player and proactive problem solver.
What you’ll get
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£26,000 – £30,000 depending on experience.
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28 days’ holiday including bank holidays, rising with service.
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Company pension scheme.
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Westfield Health benefits (dental, optical, physio, 24/7 GP, counselling and wellbeing support).
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On site parking, modern offices and ongoing training with a growing manufacturer.
If you’re a Production Administrator, Purchasing Administrator, Production Planner Assistant, Manufacturing Administrator or Document Controller looking for a new role in Dronfield we would love to hear from you.
Apply now with your CV