Production Administrator

Banbridge, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

8/4/2025

Description

The opportunity has arisen to join an industry leader in UKs & Irelands Building Services sector. Alternative Heat design, develop and deliver a wide range of offsite-prefabricated, innovative, and sustainable building service solutions throughout the UK & Europe.

What We Do

We specialise in the design, supply, and installation of a wide range of prefabricated energy solutions, typically built in NI and shipped throughout the UK & Europe. We also offer turnkey design, build, and operate solutions for commercial energy centres and large-scale district heating solutions and have experience with successfully procuring and delivering many similar packages to a wide range of public bodies throughout UK & Europe.

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: Due to continued growth, we are looking to integrate a Production Administrator/Controller to support our growing manufacturing and assembly teams in our Satellite sites. This post is a permanent contract. It is an amazing opportunity for a candidate that wants to gain experience with a progressive and dynamic company to further their career.

The Production Administrator/Controller is responsible for developing the Master Delivery Schedule in conjunction with Planning, they will interrogate the Drawings and using Excel calculators convert the drawings into actual times for use by the MDS to create site schedules with planned hours . Job Title | Production Administrator/Controller

Location | Banbridge

Hours | Mon Thurs 8-5, Fri 8-3

Salary | Competitive Depending on Experience

Responsible to | Project Manager

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop Site Production Schedule from the Master Schedule with the Planner .
• Analyse Engineering Drawings and create BOMs .
• Check on materials ordered from the BOM on the material trackers and reaffirm list.
• Generate picking lists & co-ordinate with stores for timely delivery of materials to sites.
• Ensure fabrication & assembly drawings are issued to Sub-Contractors and recorded on drawing release schedule & master schedule.
• Ensure drawings are approved by Contracts in a timely manner and advise Document Control when ready for issue to subcontractor.
• Provide Daily & Weekly KPI information (details defined for each site), and create reports.
• Update Process progress on Field View.
• Define Site Capacity for each activity- hours available in conjunction with Senior Production Managers.
• Provide information to enable the development & maintenance of production plans by Planner
• Attendance at & engagement with daily morning Fabrication & Assembly Meeting
• Chase shortages from Construction Material Requests (CMRs)
• Organising transport to & from galvanising sub-contractors in conjunction with others.
• Attendance at improvement meetings & completion of actions which arise from these.
• Providing schedule to sub-contractor and managing the adherence to that schedule.
• Ensure subcontracted material/pipes/frames are received onto Fieldview after inspection by QC
• Work in conjunction with other Planners/controllers on other sites.
• Report daily progress into the Master Delivery Schedule
  
  

What You'll Need To Have

• 3 years experience within a role completing similar duties.
• Being able to read and understand assembly and schematic drawings.
• Strong Microsoft Office experience, especially Excel
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail and high organisational skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong administration skills
• Proficient with the use of IT equipment & systems.
• Full UK Driving licence.
  
  

What You Would Ideally Have

• Relevant certifications (e.g., NVQ in construction, CSR) are advantageous.
  
  

Employee Benefits

• Full in-house training and career development opportunities.
• Competitive pension scheme.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Health cash plan.
• Full access to smart wellbeing platform.
• Annual flu vaccine
• Free annual health check during working hours.
• Annual leave increasing in line with length of service.
• Lavish Long service awards
• Generously funded social events organised for all employees throughout the year via our Social and Wellbeing committee.
• Electric vehicle charging ports
• Full access to car emergency kit.
• Annual Christmas raffle
• Yearly allowance for AH Branded clothing merchandise
• Secure, free onsite parking.
• Dedicated departmental budget allocated annually for team building events during working hours
• Free Barista Style Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Tea, and Fruit provided daily.
• Friendly and supportive working environment in state-of-the-art facilities.
  
  

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.

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