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