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 PRINCE2 project management
- Desirable if understanding of qualification and awarding body frameworks