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- Job Title: Planning Assistant
- Location: Onsite, Portsmouth, Hampshire Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits Join Harwin's Growing Manufacturing Team Harwin is a Portsmouth-based, family-owned precision engineering company with a global reputation for quality, innovation, and reliability. As we continue our ambitious growth journey, we're investing heavily in new technologies, digital transformation, and the development of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Portsmouth. We are now looking for a Planning Assistant to join our Production Planning team. This is an exciting opportunity for either an experienced planning professional or someone looking to take their first step into a planning career within a successful manufacturing business. The Opportunity As a Planning Assistant, you'll play a key role in helping ensure our production operations run smoothly and efficiently. Working closely with Production, Procurement, Warehousing, and Logistics teams, you'll help maintain accurate production plans, monitor performance, and support the delivery of customer requirements. This role offers excellent exposure across the supply chain and manufacturing operation, making it an ideal position for someone looking to build a long-term career in planning.
- What You'll Be Doing:
- Supporting the creation and maintenance of daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules
- Updating planning systems with demand forecasts, production outputs, and capacity changes
- Monitoring adherence to production plans and identifying potential risks, constraints, or delays
- Liaising with Production, Procurement, Warehousing, and Logistics teams
- Supporting material availability checks and escalating shortages where required
- Communicating schedule changes to relevant stakeholders
- Helping to ensure customer demand is met effectively and efficiently What We're Looking For We're open to applications from candidates at different stages of their career. You may already have experience in Production Planning, Materials Planning, Purchasing, Supply Chain, or Inventory Control and be looking for your next opportunity. Whether your background is in engineering, food production, chemicals, FMCG, packaging, pharmaceuticals, or another manufacturing sector, the key requirement is experience within an environment where production, stock, materials, or customer demand must be carefully managed.
- Essential:
- Experience working within a manufacturing, production, warehouse, logistics, supply chain, or other fast-paced operational environment
- Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple departments
- A proactive and problem-solving mindset
- Desirable:
- Previous experience in Production Planning, Materials Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control, or Supply Chain
- A qualification in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes, production scheduling, or capacity planning
- This Role Could Be Ideal For:
- An experienced Planner, Materials Planner, Buyer, or Supply Chain professional looking for a new challenge
- Someone working in manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, production, or operations who wants to build a career in planning
- A candidate looking to develop analytical, commercial, and operational planning skills within a growing global manufacturer
- What We Offer:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Additional 3 days' leave during the festive period
- Company bonus scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Life assurance (3x annual salary)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- The opportunity to be part of an exciting period of growth and investment
- Why Harwin? At Harwin, you'll join a business that combines the stability and values of a family-owned company with the ambition and innovation of a global manufacturer. We believe in collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and providing our people with opportunities to grow their careers. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a busy planning function where you can either bring your existing experience or develop new skills and build a rewarding career in planning and supply chain operations. Apply today and become part of Harwin's next chapter of growth.
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