Production Planner

Production Planner

Pontyclun

£32,000 – £35,000 + Day Shifts (Mon-Fri) + Holiday + Pension + Permanent Full Time Role + Training + Progression

Are you seeking an exciting role within a well-established and growing manufacturing company?

Do you have experience in Production Planning in a food manufacturing environment or similar?

In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating all planning activity relating to manufacturing and supplying finished goods.

Responsibilities:

• Maximise the stock levels to ensure service levels but with minimum levels of waste.
• Establish, maintain and encourage a positive relationship with customer supply chain.
• Maintain a flexible working pattern to fit within the demands of the business.
• To establish planning KPI’s based around service level to be communicated within the business.
• Participate and drive implementation of manufacturing system.
• Ensure all scheduling activity optimises line performance and business profitability.
• Be proactive and drive system improvements wherever possible.
• Obtain and utilise latest customer forecasts.
• Participate in customer contact conference calls.
• Monitor all WIP and on site finished goods stocks.
• Monitor finished goods stocks in 3rd party consolidators.
• Produce demand plans to hit service levels.
• Receive, interpret customer orders to produce demand plan.
• Regularly review manufacturing progress and review accordingly.
• Effectively communicate all planning activities to the business.
• Advise customer supply chain of any supply issues.
• Produce & advise on finished goods stocks to produce optimum pack formats through packing departments.
• Monitor and advise of weekly / daily labour requirements for all departments.
• Monitor bakery and the packing throughput and report attainment to plan percentages and then populate KPI boards prior to operational review meetings.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of production planning
• Food Manufacturing background
• Ideally some bakery experience.
• Experience of working in fast paced and evolving business.
• Experience of working with short shelf-life products.

Excellent IT skills.

Good standard of written and oral communication in English.

Role: Permanent

Salary: £32,000 – £35,000