Master Planner

About the role

The Master Planner is responsible for coordinating and maintaining planning information across Action Manufacturing production programmes, with a focus on assembly and special vehicle builds. The role supports accurate production scheduling, customer order visibility, factory confirmation tracking, build sequencing, reporting, and cross-functional coordination to ensure units are planned, communicated, and progressed in line with business, customer, and operational requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain accurate planning schedules for assembly and special vehicle production programmes.
• Track confirmed factory orders, pending purchase orders, customer build requirements, and delivery timing.
• Coordinate updates to RCCP dates, build sequences, production priorities, and schedule changes.
• Maintain visibility of customer orders, capex programmes, retail builds, prototype builds, and special vehicle requirements.
• Liaise with Sales, Operations, Engineering, and other stakeholders to clarify build status, timing, and customer priorities.
• Communicate schedule changes and planning updates to relevant internal teams in a timely manner.
• Maintain accurate planning spreadsheets, production tracking tools, and programme status records.
• Prepare and update planning reports to support production meetings, management visibility, and operational decision-making.
• Work with production, stores, purchasing, engineering, and sales teams to support build readiness and schedule accuracy.
• Follow up constraints, missing information, or timing risks that may impact production flow.

About you

• Experience in production planning, scheduling, manufacturing administration, or operational coordination.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, build sequencing, customer order tracking, and production reporting.
• Experience maintaining spreadsheets, planning tools, ERP data, production schedules, or build tracking registers.
• Exposure to cross-functional coordination between production, sales, engineering, stores, purchasing, and finance teams.
• Excellent planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills.
• High attention to detail and accuracy when maintaining schedules, registers, order information, and reporting data.
• Confident communicator able to follow up with stakeholders and clarify priorities.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365 capability, with confidence working across ERP or planning systems.
• Ability to work calmly with changing priorities, urgent requests, and production constraints.
• Strong data discipline, confidentiality, and document control awareness.