COME JOIN OUR JOURNEY!

When you join TT, you join our global community of visionaries, creators, and achievers dedicated to engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions enabling a safer, healthier and more sustainable world.  Simply put, we are a global manufacturer with a passion for engineering advanced electronics that benefit our planet and people for future generations.  We are committed to having a positive impact on the world through a culture built around safety, transparency, collaboration, and positive relationships.  Our teams are fuelled by performance and expertise, leading the charge in innovation, efficiency and delivering world-class customer service. Be part of the journey.

Introduction

We are looking for a Planner to join our busy planning team based at our site in Abercyon South Wales.

Reporting to the Planning Manager, the purpose of the Production Planner is to create and manage production schedules, balancing the customer demand with available resource (materials, labour, and equipment) to ensure efficient, on-time product delivery while controlling cost. Tasks include demand planning by using data from MPS to produce the production plan in excel, operating within our MPS/MRP environment and cross collaboration both internally and externally. You will also collaborate directly with our customers, ensuring they have maximum visibility of the current and forward plan. The core goal is to ensure the right products are made at the right time and best cost. Always ensuring high quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Scheduling

• Develop detailed production schedules while understanding and responding to both firm and planned orders.
• Release manufacturing orders to “Clear to Build Release” protocols.
• Coordinate and prioritise the flow of work to optimise factory output and minimise downtime.
• Focus planning skills on meeting the Master Production Schedule as number one priority.
• Support New Product Introduction process.

Order Management

• Proactively manage the flow of firm and planned work orders.
• resolving backlogs
• Work with key departments and customer to align schedules, resolve issues, and report deviations.
• Ensure all action / exception messages are reviewed and actioned in a timely manner.
• Ensure system and excel plans are aligned.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities to reduce cost and improve productivity.
• Maintain scrap and yield factors correctly.
• You will be expected to support our drive for continuous improvements,

Performance monitoring and reporting

• Track and report performance using various leading and lagging indicators.
• Route cause and report issues.
• Work cross functionally to produce a robust improvement plan.
• You will be expected to report into and participate in our SPQDCE process.
• Support various meetings on behalf of Planning / Supply Chain
• Support the companies SIOP process.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with our customer to ensure plan alignment.
• Support our sister company to ensure their shipping plans meet our customer requirements.
• Ensure the total plan from two production facilities meet customer orders and expectations.

Inventory Management

• Monitor stock levels of raw materials and finished goods to ensure they are available in a timely fashion to meet the production schedule.
• Prepare reports and action any deviation.
• Monitor stock levels for emergence of slow moving and obsolete and recommend actions.
• Maintain safety factors, as appropriate based on statistical formulae.

System Management

• Ensure all appropriate system item master data is up to date and valid.
• Participate in regular system audits.

Any other duties where directed.

Technical Skills

• Ability to analyse data, forecast demand and solve complex problems.
• Familiarity with MRP/ERP/MPS systems and scheduling processes.
• Proficient in Excel and other planning tools.

Experience

• Good knowledge of supply chain, planning, planning software and material management principles.
• Background in manufacturing, high-mix low volume environments preferred.
• Experience working across multiple sites is beneficial.

Soft Skills

• Effective communication and influence with both internal teams and external customers.
• Problem-solving mindset with ability to manage escalations under time pressure.
• Excellent time management and diligence.
• Resilient, initiative-taking, and highly organised.
• Detailed orientated with a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Able to see the bigger picture.

What we offer

• Enhanced pension contributions
• Healthcare cashback plan
• Employee assistance programme
• Free Fruit Tuesdays 
• Sharesave
• Site incentive plan
• Financial wellbeing benefit
• Discounted online and high street shopping and lifestyle vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted RAC membership
• Discounted Gym membership at local leisure centres
• Specsavers vouchers
• 183.75 hours annual leave plus bank holidays
• A supportive and friendly working environment with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability

Due to the specific projects TT Electronics, Abercynon, supports we are unable to sponsor work visas for this role. Candidates will be required to achieve Baseline Personal Security Standard Clearance and hold UK or US citizenship.

Successful candidates will be required to undertake and pass pre and during employment drug and alcohol testing. 

Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World

We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you!

Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. You can do this by emailing TTRecruitment@ttelectronics.com  

If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.  

#WeAreTT #BeMeAtTT