Production Planner

Production Planner – Llantrisant

Salary:   £28,000 - £32,000 P/A

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

Working hours: Monday – Friday

We are seeking an experienced production planner to join a leading food manufacturing company based in Llantrisant.

Main Duties:

• To coordinate all planning activity relating to manufacturing and supplying finished goods.
• To be customer facing, building relationships in a collaborative approach.
• To develop information to support manufacturing system ie MRP.
• Strive for 100% service level across the customer base.
• 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.
• Communicate to business stocks and service level performance.
• 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.
• Schedule bakery lines to hit maximum service levels.
• 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.

About You:

• Experience of production planning in a High-Risk Food Manufacturing business for at least 3-5 years.
• 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.