Operations Planner

Operations Planner

East Kilbride

Free Parking

Full time role Monday to Friday

8am to 4.30 pm

Salary up to £25K to £30K per annum

Job role:

• Maximising utilization of direct labour and self-employed resources to meet the requirements of clients and other staff development needs
• Anaylyse jobs, both reactive and planned and allocate them to the correct resource-based locations, skill, priority, and customer requirements
• Reporting any planning and scheduling issues to the relevant department
• Ensure clear and concise quality updates reflecting true programme progress for commercial courses and modern apprenticeships
• Work with the manager to ensure management and delivery of contracts against client’s service level agreements
• Track work in progress levels on all contracts, ensuring timely completion of jobs
• Scheduling trainers and assessor’s work
• Plan 12 week look ahead commercial courses to meet customer demand and increase company profit
• Draft rolling 12-month scheduling of courses
• Assess what programs need promoting and highlight to the sales team any risks or opportunities
• Take lead in weekly planning meetings, against the business agenda

Job Requirement:

• Must have experience in commercial planning and coordinating
• 2 years’ experience in working within a scheduling/resource planning environment
• Used Microsoft office and using database management systems
• Driving license essential as some travel required occasionally, all expenses paid
• Desirable if PRINT2 project management
• Desirable if understanding of qualification and awarding body frameworks

Benefits

• Company events

• Free Parking
• Employee Discounts
• Store discounts
• Pension