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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.
