Production Planner

**Production Planner**

**Salary**: £30,000 - £33,000 depending on experience

**Shift**: 4 on 4 off, Days

**Shift Times**: 06.00 - 18.00

**Location**: Bakkavor Bourne, PE10 0AT

**Benefits Package**: 33 Days Annual Leave (Inc BH)

Life Assurance

Personal Accident Cover

Pension

Flexible Benefits Package

Staff Shop

Free Parking

Bakkavor Bourne specialises in making prepared fruit, stir fry mixes, leafy and dressed salads. It employs over 1,100 people and forms part of the Bakkavor Meals sector in the UK.

**About the role**:
A fantastic opportunity for a **Production Planner** to facilitate the smooth running of the factory from receiving customer orders to dispatching finished goods.

You’ll deliver the daily production plans, process customer orders and constantly monitor the progress of the factory to ensure we achieve 100% service level while minimising waste.

You’ll generate daily labour plans that deliver business labour efficiencies for all areas.

**About you**:

- Educated to a minimum of A level standard or previous experience of working in a planning department
- Excellent numerical skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Good IT skills with the ability to develop these further
- Ability to make decisions and solve problems

**About us**:
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

**Proud to be Bakkavor**

We’re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We’re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we’re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

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