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.