Job Title: Supply Chain Graduate
Location: High Post, Salisbury
Salary: £25,000-£26,000
Job Type: This role will be worked over a 4.5 day week; Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:45 and Friday 08:00 – 12:30. Flexibility in this role is critical to the success of supporting the team.
Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.
About the role:
The Supply Chain Graduate will be required to establish and control the production plans for specific production areas, ensuring that the plan is maintained in line with the Sales and production plans and relevant capacities. To learn and understand MRP system concepts, outputs and planning procedures. Become familiar with inventory management tools and analysis. Assist in and learn about ongoing planning projects.
The responsibilities of the role include (but are not limited to):
- Generate and maintain department specific Production Schedules. Liaise with the relevant production departments to ensure that capacity constraints and batching controls are considered in the creation of these plans.
- Learn and interpret MRP procedures to enable accurate judgements to be made on MRP order recommendations, assisting all departments (purchasing, operations) in problem solving and understanding requirements.
- Gain experience in inventory and stores activity generating reports on inventory forecasting and OBSO/SMI
- Participate in the preparation and administration of 6 monthly site wide stock takes including post count analysis
- Run reports and update weekly metrics. Analyse content to gain understanding of problem areas and performance. Provide weekly status to team.
- Assist Buyers in supplier reviews and meetings and provide demand forecasting data to key suppliers
- Learn the P2P process steps and develop a robust system of reporting metric KPI data into a weekly dashboard, and cascade of open issues to team.
- Learn the governance aspects of procurement and risk avoidance processes associated with them
- Manage the Engineering change validation process from ECO to supplier and optimize the implementation impact on demand timing and obsolescence.
- Understand commercial aspects of Procurement and impact on cost of sales and the contract management techniques to mitigate cost variation.
About you:
- Working knowledge of MRP & associated planning, scheduling & purchase routines
- Learn the group Policy and procedure via CCP training modules
- Experience of computerized inventory management & purchase systems and up to date methodology.
- IT Skills (Microsoft Office)
- Ability to understand technical drawings and component criteria
- Degree in Maths, Science or Humanities
About Chemring Countermeasures:
Chemring Countermeasures has a culture built on our values of Safety, Excellence and Innovation. We continue our investment in the very best people to contribute to our delivery of highly reliable solutions. We are seeking individuals who are not only of the highest calibre for today’s business but have the capability to perform at even higher standards to meet the needs of tomorrow’s threats facing our armed forces.
We have more than 50 years’ experience at the forefront of Radio Frequency (RF) and Infrared (IR) expendable decoy research, design and manufacture, we operate at the leading edge of expendable countermeasure technology.
Benefits:
- We actively encourage an open and collaborative culture across our site through the recognised suggestion scheme and reward and recognition scheme
- 5 weeks’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- A generous pension scheme
- Share save scheme
- Holiday buying and selling scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which includes dietary advice, wellbeing initiatives, family matters and counselling support
- We hold annual social events
- Cultural days
- Free on-site parking
- Podiatrist
- Weekly fruit baskets
Armed Forces Covenant
We are proud to support the armed forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value that Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reserves, Veterans, Uniformed Cadet Instructors and Service Families contribute to our business and the United Kingdom.
Please Note:
Chemring CM is an Equal Opportunities and Age Positive Employer however candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to be considered for this role.
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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Supply Chain Manager, Distribution Manager, Senior Supply Chain Officer, Demand Planner, Supply Chain Planner, Buying Project Manager, Purchasing Manager, Logistics Manager, Inventory Manager may also be considered for this role.
