Production Planner
7 months ago
Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking a **Production Planner **at our head offices in **Kegworth, Derbyshire/Leicestershire. **If you are someone with experience in production planning or scheduling within a FMCG environment, we’d love to hear from you.
**Production Planner - Refresco, Kegworth - Head office**
**Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5pm and 8:30am - 4pm on Friday**
**(Hybrid working - 2 days WFH, 3 days office based)**
**Permanent**
**What’s in it for you?**
- An early finish on a Friday.
- Hybrid working.
- Enhanced holiday allowance.
- Company pension.
- Life insurance.
- Annual bonus.
- Opportunities for growth and development in a secure and established global firm, including Apprenticeship training programs.
- The chance to earn bonus for referring friends and family.
- Access to Employee Benefits Platform.
- Free, on-site parking and vending canteen and social areas.
**What are your daily tasks as a Production Planner at Refresco?**
- Accountable for producing and maintaining the 52 week rough cut capacity to utilise the factories’ capacity in the most cost effective way.
- Responsible for planning stock builds around downtime and speculative volume to avoid shortages and capacity constraints.
- Carry out effective and economic short term capacity checking, issuing new plans to availability / site scheduling to meet labour and other resource requirements.
- Translate the forecasts into business capacity plan with a defined outlook period, smoothing any peaks or drops in capacity to reduce labour costs whilst maintaining service to ensure lowest cost for the business.
- Manage opportunities for changing demand with customer teams effectively and swiftly to enable customer teams to realize their customer service.
- Manage the introduction of new products & changes to existing sku’s in the planning process to meet launch deadlines in a cost effective and productive manner.
- Maintain and upgrade planning tools as required to meet the ever changing business needs.
- Upgrade systems and processes used so that planning becomes more automated and less time consuming.
- Adhere to all inventory policies, batch sizes and production cycles issued by the Master scheduler, challenging where appropriate to actively reduce finished goods working capital.
- Responsible to generate, maintain and explain what-if scenario planning to include optimal shift patterns for the factory and machinery requirements to reduce direct labour costs.
- Monitor & report compliance to production plans via weekly PVA and KPI’s
- Monitor FG stocks and being responsible for highlighting key offenders.
- Driving actions through commercial to sell through obsolete stock.
- Investigate all availability shortages, due to lack of stock, implementing corrective actions.
**Key skills**:
- Experience of planning systems including production constraints and optimising plans.
- Experience within production planning or scheduling.
- Exposure to a fast-moving consumer goods environment.
**About Refresco**
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 78 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and we've just opened in Australia, and we’re only just getting started. The business has grown from just 2 sites in 1999. Our Group Headquarters are based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets, plus some of the best-known UK drinks brands such as Monster Energy, Ocean Spray and Innocent.
From the purchasing of the raw materials such as fruit juices and CO2, through to the finished product delivered to your table, we cover the full manufacturing cycle for our customers. And, whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards.
- Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process._
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