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At Morgan Advanced Materials, our rich history and dedication to innovation define who we are. Since our establishment in the UK in 1856, we have expanded globally, now operating across 70 sites in 18 countries. Our goal is to create a more sustainable world and enhance quality of life. We actively pursue this purpose through the development and production of advanced materials. 

Within our business unit, we specialise in innovating cutting-edge carbon, graphite, and carbide products that deliver outstanding performance. We use our expertise to tackle complex challenges across many diverse industries to provide effective solutions for our valued customers. 

Our products are shaping a better future; from enabling electric cars to charge faster and drive longer distances to maximising the operational efficiency of wind turbines. We are proud to help generate power for billions of people, deliver water to drought-stricken regions, improve the efficiency of industrial pumps, and protect lives both on the land and in the air. 

Key Figures: Revenue £1,114.7m (2023), ~8,500 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK.  Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.

Job Purpose:

Its purpose is to plan the contract manufacturing production programs, ensuring that the site's volumes are met; it places purchase orders for raw materials with the subsidiary to meet production demand. It communicates and proposes actions to reduce barriers that may affect the fulfillment of production programs.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Generate work orders for the current and following week's production packages.
  Coordinate and communicate the period's production schedule with Supervisors, Manufacturing, and Product, ensuring up-to-date information on:

  • Work in process

  • Order volume

  • Available labor

  • Production time

  • Expected scrap levels

  • Machinery capacity and availability 

• Identify barriers that may affect production and adjust the schedule as needed.

• Maintain constant communication with the Greenville plant to update information on scheduling, raw material inventories, tooling, and other factors that impact production plan fulfillment.

• Define and monitor, along with the US team, metrics related to material availability, work in process, and order generation.

• Keep daily and weekly production schedules updated for all lines.

• Promptly communicate any changes in order priorities (advancements, changes, or cancellations) to supervisors.

• Inform the US plant about actual production volume vs. projected volume. The expected and on bottlenecks that may cause delays, as well as their causes.

• Manage and update production-related ERP information to ensure reliable data that supports reporting and decision-making.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree level
• Minimum 3 years' experience in a similar position
• Intermediate-advanced English
• Use of MRP (production management)
• Knowledge of Statistics (forecasting, trending, projection, etc.)
• Production planning
• Knowledge of supply chain
• Knowledge of inventory control

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1