Production Planner

**Production Planner**

**Malton, North Yorkshire**

**Monday to Friday 40 hours**

**Salary up to £30,000**

Pro-Pak Foods is a major supplier of delicious ready meals to many of the UK’s leading supermarkets and convenience stores. Our chefs, working with our customers, have created a menu of more than 200 quality meals.

As one of our Production Planners, you will support the planning team here at Pro-Pak to ensure production plans fit within factory capacities.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Working with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Gaining an understanding of all processes on site to enable efficient planning
- Scheduling daily work streams to deliver an achievable plan
- Issuing daily, weekly and monthly production plans and reporting
- Proactively managing stocks and liaising with the relevant departments to resolve any issues
- Working with other departments to plan and successfully launch new product lines
- Communicating with production employees, to ensure timely completion and dispatch of products
- Investigating any problems that arise during production and finding solutions
- Planning production schedules to meet business plans and achieve KPI’s.

**We’re looking for someone who is**:

- Logical and confident in their delivery
- Focused on delivering high standards
- Responsible, accountable and has the motivation for improvement
- Flexible and adaptable.

**Skills experience required**:

- Intermediate-to-advanced MS Excel knowledge (and a willingness to learn new IT systems)
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to make quick decisions
- Food production/FMCG planning and production control experience desirable
- Reporting and analysis.

**What we can offer you**:

- 33 days’ holiday, including bank holidays
- £28,000 to £30,000 salary DOE
- Core hours Monday-Friday (8am-5pm), with occasional flexibility to meet the business needs
- Access to GroceryAid, which provides emotional, practical and financial support
- Benefits and recognition hub - including amazing colleague discounts.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send us your CV and a brief introduction about yourself. Thank you for considering Pro-Pak Foods.