Planner

This role will be situated at our Malton site, in the planning department and will be responsible for the planning and coordinating of all raw material and production within the Central Packed Meats (CPM) area of the site, to meet customer requirements whilstaiming for maximum efficiency in the use of machinery, raw materials and labour. The post-holder will produce accurate stock requirements and plans for labour, machinery and labour hours and will work closely with production, other planning areas, costingand technical, communicating and notifying of potential problems where necessary.
The root to success in this role will be through strong understanding of factory production capabilities and critically strong working relationships with all relevant internal departments and external customers. Maintaining an awareness of the material flowbetween departments and querying any deviation to standard practises and resolving accordingly. Ensuring departmental supervisors and managers understand their role in achieving the plan. Acting decisively under challenging time pressured conditions and takefull responsibility and accountability for actions to ensure excellence is achieved.

Karro are one of the UK's leading pork processors with processing plants across the country - we supply our products to leading retailers, foodservice and manufacturing customers.
- Work as part of a unified team, driving increased planning accuracy and stock control throughout and supporting an environment for the whole team to contribute to success, with ownership by all
- Receive customer orders from forecasting systems, Sales Managers and the Trading Department
- Update daily plans to reflect orders and requirements, ensuring the correct specification of product is available for the forecasted production
- Ensure provision of detailed production plans for all designated departments
- Analyse actual versus plan on a daily and weekly basis and report on adherence to plan
- Explore, develop and implement the most efficient and cost effective methods of producing products from the site.
- To explore, develop and implement best practices, identify areas for improvement and ensure continuous performance improvement across all areas of responsibility.
- Utilise standard operating procedures for the planning team and identify improvements where appropriate
- Ensure accuracy of stock reports
- Immediate communication and escalation of potential problems to minimise potential errors
- Effectively communicates relevant information to all business levels and confronts issues openly and quickly
- Previous FMCG food experience, ideally within the meat industry
- Previous planning or scheduling experience
- Excellent communication and team working skills
- Natural decision-maker, able to exercise judgement and take responsibility for the consequences of actions and decisions
- Determined and resilient, with the drive to complete tasks
- Ability to accept and learn from constructive criticism
- Tactical thought process, able to challenge convention and identify alternative ways of working
- Relationship builder with the ability to build and develop strong personal relationships with the supplier and internally within Karro Food Group
- High levels of professionalism and integrity
- Excellent analytical skills
- IT literate (Excel - essential, SAP - desirable and Hellenic - desirable)