Job Description

Description

Team Overview:

The Production team oversees the planning, coordination, and execution of all manufacturing and assembly activities within our fabrication facilities. They ensure that bespoke mechanical and electrical components are produced efficiently, to the highest quality standards, and delivered on schedule. By maintaining streamlined workflows and close collaboration with design and project teams, the Production department plays a key role in supporting timely and successful project delivery.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and organized Production Planner to coordinate and optimize production schedules in alignment with business goals. The Production Planner will ensure that production processes run smoothly and efficiently, delivering products on time and within budget while maintaining quality standards.

Job Title

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Production Planner

Location

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Banbridge, Co. Down

Hours

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Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm and Friday 8am-3pm

Salary

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Competitive Depending on Experience

Responsible to

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Senior Production Manager

What You'll be Doing

The role involves developing, maintaining, and communicating production schedules based on forecasts, inventory targets, and customer demands while coordinating with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and business development teams to ensure material and capacity availability. It includes monitoring production progress, analyzing data to identify inefficiencies, and adjusting plans to address delays or issues. The position ensures alignment between production and material availability, maintains accurate records and systems for tracking metrics, and prepares reports on performance, capacity, and delivery timelines. Additionally, it focuses on optimizing resource allocation, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, and requires strong knowledge of production workflows, inventory control, and supply chain management.

About Alternative Heat

With over 20 years of experience within the Commercial Offsite Fabrication industry, Alternative Heat have established themselves as a market leader in this sector.

Located centrally between Dublin and Belfast our 8.5 acre Head Office and fabrication facilities, which are fully equipped with overhead cranes and 8,000m of workshop floor area, provide an ideal factory construction environment which is reflected in the high quality solutions we offer.



We employ a strong team of design engineers, CAD technicians, contracts managers and skilled trades personnel who utilise their vast industry experience to assist in the design, fabrication and delivery of our bespoke MEP solutions, which we supply throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe.