Join us as a Production Planner and take the lead in transforming customer demand into seamless operational success. You’ll be at the heart of our production process — balancing priorities, optimising efficiency, and ensuring that every plan translates into high-quality output and excellent internal service. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where precision and performance matter, we’d love to hear from you.
As a Production Planner at Arco, you will work in a hybrid fashion, with a mix of working from our production site in Preston and home-based working. The working pattern is Monday to Friday, with hours rotating between 06:00 to 14:00 and 10:00 to 18:00.
Key responsibilities include:
- Monitoring and regularly reviewing operational updates and advising the operational teams of any changes to the original plan
- Developing a production schedule by utilising the planning tools to consolidate logo requirements and allocate workflow to the most suitable machine
- Controlling work release to ensure the smooth workflow in operation
- Working closely with the operational teams to identify opportunities for lead-time reduction and special material requirements
- Troubleshooting problems that occur during production process, including staff shortages and machinery downtimes and adjust the schedule of work accordingly
- Ensuring delivery dates are maintained accurately and managing exceptional demand and large orders
- Providing short term forecast requirements to the operation to ensure outsource demand is managed appropriately against demand trends
- Closely monitoring 3rd party outsource performance, cost and communicate any consistency issues
- Escalating issues with master data to the Operations Analyst for resolution
On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:
- A starting salary of £26,089 plus bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays which rises with service, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days each calendar year
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension (up to 8% Arco contribution) and x4 Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of discounts to help with cost of living via Perkbox plus Employee Discount on Arco products
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Health Cash Plan where we'll reimburse up to 100% of everyday healthcare costs
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
About you
The ideal Production Planner will be/have:
- On the job knowledge of production planning and supply chain processes
- Product knowledge, understanding sku, pack configurations and their relationship in WMCS systems would be a distinct advantage
- Detailed knowledge of clothing and decoration products is desirable
- Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and to deadlines
- Able to demonstrate experience of communicating both verbally and in written formats
- IT Skills to intermediate level include SAP and MS Office
- Good numeracy skills
- Ideally have used Wilcom or any other design software