Job Description
Production Planner – Job Summary:
We’re supporting our client, a leading food processing facility based in Hereford, who are looking for a Production Planner to join their growing team. The successful Production Planner will have experience of supply chain ensuring factory demand is met on a daily basis.
Salary: £27,000 – £32,000
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Hereford
Job Start date: ASAP
Benefits: 31 Days Holiday, 6%Pension, Life Insurance, Various lifestyle benefits, including wellbeing resources
Responsibilities:
- Creating and maintain processing plans to ensure that factory demand is met on a daily basis
- Ensuring that plans are kept up to date with the latest information including weights
- Communicate daily and weekly plans to those who require it including factory and various other parties
- To manage plans over a number of weeks in order to forecast how weight and performance is changing and understand what needs to be done in order to maintain target weight set out by the business
- You will analyse performance trends and utilise them in future decision making and work collaboratively with all areas of the business to achieve the best result for all
- Effectively manage placement densities, grower turnarounds, cycle lengths and any additional placement requests as and when required, e.g., Trials, new sites/housing
- Manage parameters using planning software and ensure information is kept up to date and entered correctly, including placement information and 3rd party delivery notes
- Liaise with 3rd party companies when necessary, in line with maintaining target weight
- Ensure that the correct paperwork is sent to the factory when third party sales occur
- Coordinate with area managers to ensure that information is accurate and is received in a timely manner
- Monitor planned weights against actual weights on a daily basis
- Monitor performance and to highlight to the management team any anomalies or significant drops in performance
- Develop strong working relationships with the company’s partners and communicate information/plans accordingly
- Assist in the development of agricultural planning systems in support of company’s planning process and to manage changes as part of a wider IT project
- Develop and maintain performance metrics which demonstrate strong understanding and control over plan performance
- Ensure that our agricultural processes are not planned to break legislation, permit restrictions or our assurance scheme standards e.g., stocking densities
- Assist in any ancillary tasks to help improve company’s operations
- Support the rest of the Ag Planning Dept as necessary
About You:
- Demonstrates understanding of supply chain and planning
- Previous experience in a demand/supply or factory planning role – desirable
- Strong IT skills – competent in Excel
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills
- Confident, open, collaborative communicator
- Structured and organised – punctual with the ability to work to strict deadlines and multi-task
- Capable of organising and delivering change projects
- Good verbal and especially numerical reasoning
- Approachable, personable and team focused
- Proactive self-starter with a strong work ethic
- Naturally inquisitive with an eye for detail
Job Application:
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