Production Planner

About The Role

Are you a natural problem‑solver who thrives in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment? Do you enjoy bringing order, clarity, and momentum to complex production workflows?

Painter Brothers is looking for a proactive and detail‑driven Production Planner to join our Planning team and play a key role in delivering high‑quality steel fabrication projects on time and to programme.

As a Production Planner, you’ll sit at the heart of our operations—translating customer requirements into clear, logical, and achievable production plans. You’ll be the vital link between work winning, design, procurement, production, quality, and despatch, ensuring everyone has the information they need to deliver safely, efficiently, and with confidence.

Working within StruMIS and other planning tools, you’ll help shape daily and weekly priorities, monitor performance, and keep projects moving in the right direction. Your work will make a direct impact on factory efficiency, throughput, customer satisfaction, and on‑time delivery.

This is a hybrid role, combining home working with regular presence at our Hereford site to support factory coordination and stakeholder engagement.

• Develop and maintain detailed production plans within StruMIS.
• Create efficient routing and workstation sequences.
• Produce daily and weekly plans aligned to delivery requirements and production targets.
• Identify constraints, risks, and sequencing challenges—and elevate where needed.

• Maintain accurate order and production data in StruMIS.
• Issue and control work orders.
• Monitor progress and ensure timely system updates.
• Champion data quality and continuous improvement in planning discipline.

• Collate progress data from production, quality, and despatch.
• Produce and distribute reports for Planning Leads, Project Managers, Finance, and clients.
• Track KPIs such as plan adherence, throughput, slippage, and recovery actions.

• Support the transition from work winning to operations.
• Ensure scope and priorities are clearly communicated.
• Maintain visibility of each order across its production lifecycle.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to resolve issues and support delivery.
• Deputise for the Planning Lead at production, sales, and delivery meetings.

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• High attention to detail
• Clear, confident communication
• Strong data management capability
• Competent in Microsoft Excel
• ERP/MRP system experience (StruMIS desirable)

• Production planning within manufacturing or steel fabrication
• Understanding of factory workflows, constraints, and sequencing
• Familiarity with planning tools (StruMIS, MS Project, Primavera P6, ASTA etc.)
• Experience monitoring production progress and managing plans
• Background in working with multi‑disciplinary delivery teams

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

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