What We Are Looking For
Rheinmetall Weapon Munitions UK Ltd. (RWM UK) is part of Germany's largest defence engineering company Rheinmetall AG based in Düsseldorf (Germany). We design, manufacture and support military large‑calibre weapon systems for the British Army and international customers. RWM UK is now starting a new production site in Telford.
The individual in this role will support the Supply Chain team and Master Production Schedule in the delivery and scheduling of products and fully assembled weapon systems within the manufacturing environment, ensuring cost, quality and schedule requirements are attained.
Responsibilities
* Create master production routings/schedules to control production and external supply chain within the SAP environment.
* Coordinate the strategic planning of BoMs (MBoM) within the SAP environment ensuring configuration management control.
* Production control, in conjunction with the Production Controller, timely provision of plans and materials in production scheduling of production orders for the whole Telford site, coordination of meetings with production, logistics, purchasing, etc.
* Creation of SAP-purchase requests, SAP-production orders, SAP-shipping requests (AzV) and collection requests (AzA).
* Coordination of external and internal material flow together with the logistics experts.
* Responsible for the creation and management of capacity planning models for the whole Telford site.
* Creation and maintenance of master production schedules and material resource planning within the SAP environment.
* Creation of a supply plan, monitoring factory/production line capacity and inventory optimisation.
* Preparation and management of balanced and levellled production plans.
* Continuous monitoring of the schedule situation from internal production and external materials.
* Establish and maintain manufacturing resource forward load data to understand capacity constraints.
* Coordinate the development and analysis of plant performance, provision and dissemination of performance reports and corrective action plans as required.
* Support to the Supply Chain and Operations Management teams.
* Provision and review of relevant metrics and KPIs to ensure operational activities are delivered to cost and schedule.
Qualifications
* Completed vocational training in a technical profession with further training as a Production planner or controller or similar would be ideal.
* Experience in materials planning/order processing as Material dispatcher/Production controller.
* Good knowledge of SAP and MRP, ideally S4 Hana, and all functionality and Microsoft Office especially Excel to a high standard is essential.
* Affinity for numbers, data and facts and the ability to present these to audiences at different levels.
* Excellent communication and analytical skills (verbal and presentational).
* Ability to work and influence cross-functionally with stakeholder management techniques.
What We Offer
Rheinmetall is establishing a new production site for large calibre barrels in Telford – and you have the opportunity to join the company at this exciting time of growth and be involved in setting up the new plant from the very beginning.
* Competitive salaries reviewed each year against market.
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
* Private healthcare plan.
* Employer pension contribution up to 6% matched by employer.
* Free on site car park.
* Career development opportunities.
* Excellent training opportunities.
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