Operations Planner

Operations Planner

Are you an organised planner who enjoys keeping production moving, solving problems and making sure customer deadlines are met?

We’re recruiting an Operations Planner to join a busy manufacturing operation in Lincolnshire. This is a key role sitting across Production, Fit Out, Sales, Purchasing and other internal teams, ensuring orders move through the business effectively and realistic production plans are maintained.

You’ll need to be confident juggling priorities, communicating across different departments and reacting quickly when production, capacity or supply issues affect the plan.

What you’ll be doing

• Creating and maintaining achievable production and fit-out plans
• Planning workload across multiple departments
• Prioritising urgent and time-critical customer orders
• Coordinating production, purchasing, suppliers and internal teams
• Identifying capacity, supply-chain and subcontractor constraints
• Keeping delivery dates accurate and up to date
• Flagging risks or changes before they impact the customer
• Helping ensure orders progress through the business on time Operations Planner

What we’re looking for

You’ll be highly organised, methodical and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change.

Previous production or manufacturing planning experience would be advantageous, although we’re equally interested in strong coordinators with the right mindset and transferable experience.

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good problem-solving ability
• Confidence communicating with people at all levels
• A proactive, hands-on approach
• Good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel Operations Planner



This would suit somebody who enjoys being at the heart of an operation and gets satisfaction from bringing different teams together to keep everything moving.

Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd, your personal data may be added to our database as part of the application process. Our privacy policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data. Your details will be reviewed by one of our Recruitment Partners and we will contact you again within 5 working days if your application is to be progressed further.  

Please note that we are not able to provide support with visa sponsorships and all applicants must be based in the UK and hold the valid right to work in the UK

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