Production Planner

6 months ago

Bilston, United Kingdom Salisbury Poultry Full time

Production Planners make sure that products are produced on time and at the lowest cost. They carefully work out the best way to use resources, such as staff and materials.
- Ensures the production and distribution of products runs smoothly.
- Working as part of team with responsibility for the ownership and development of Production Scheduling System within busy Production environment
- Create and maintain daily planning schedules
- Cooperate with production and together facilitate the successful execution of the daily plan
- Provide production team with clear plans with regular monitoring to ensure accurate production quantities
- Communicate product supply progress with all internal and external customers
- Planning involves the analysis of orders from customers to confirm whether these can be fulfilled, communicating with production, ascertain the position in relation to raw material and whether orders can be manufactured.

**Key Duties & Responsibilities**
- Role Specific_
- Maintain and manage the scheduling system on a daily basis to support Production Managers
- Review customer orders and accounts to support accurate and timely submission of financial information
- Liaises with Sales to determine customer requirements
- Approves materials, costs, manufacturing equipment and the size of workforce needs to manufacture
- Participate in development of operating plans and monthly forecasting
- Communicate and explain manufacturing performance
- Ability to extract, organise, analyse, and report data in a manner that is useful and relevant for making business decisions
- Develop broad technical and communication skills through self-study, internal and external training opportunities
- Receiving and communicating in a timely fashion orders to production, assessing their ability to fulfil the orders
- Generating and producing a production plan
- Communicating with customers in relation to BBQ orders and thereafter to check with production that these orders are being fulfilled. Advising customer of figures at the end of day
- Collects and assesses data about production and team’s performance
- Prepares reports about production processes for upper management and suggests ways to improve efficiency
- Any other reasonable duties which may be required from management from time to time
- Knowledge and Experience_
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience of Production Planning within busy Manufacturing Environment
- 5 GCSE’s Grade C passes to include English and Maths or equivalent
- Excellent organisational, planning and administrative abilities
- Determination to see jobs through to completion
- Ability to analyse and evaluate data
- Strong Excel skills with the ability to collate and present data
- General knowledge of costing, budgeting, and financial information.
- Basic accounting methods and logic
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to conduct problem identification and give recommendations
- Ability to support and foster teamwork for projects
- Solid analytical skills (logical through process, reasonability, timeliness)
- Solid computer skills (Microsoft; Excel; Power Point; etc) and general systems knowledge
- Proven ability to prioritise objectives and duties
- Good time management skills
- Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
- High level of proficiency using PC spreadsheets
- Professional attitude
- Flexible approach to work and availability for overtime when required

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £12.95 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking

**Experience**:

- Production Scheduling: 1 year (preferred)
- Production Management: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: HRPL

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