Production Planner

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and Take your next step with Samworth Brothers become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: - Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
- Site based role in Callington, Cornwall

**The Opportunity**

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Production Planner to join our Cornwall Bakery team, here in Callington. You will be trained up Monday - Friday until you have mastered the training and then you will be moved onto your normal shift pattern of Friday - Monday. You will direct and control the manufacturing process through the effective utilisation and co-ordination of resources and materials. Provide effective and timely plans, act as a focal point for communication within the bakery and safeguard customer service externally and internally at optimum cost to the business. Helping to resolve issues in the Supply Chain end to end that impact improvements in performance
Key Responsibilities:

- Compile the daily plan and the 7 day plan for Prep, Production and Packing
- Monitor Despatch stocks and date life and rectify discrepancies
- Generate and communicate the Planning KPI Dashboard for service, conformance to plan and finished goods waste
- Assist in FG’s stock control, picking up ongoing issues and resolving these with the relevant parties in Despatch and SBSC
- Coordinate exceptional activity such as product trials, promotional packaging, samples and production with 3rd Parties
- Conduct Data analysis able to plot trends and spot opportunities- Knowledge of constraint planning and scheduling methods in food manufacturing (Desirable)
- Previous Planning or Scheduling Experience (Desirable)
- Use of Aurora/ System 21
- Excel to advanced level

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._