Senior Production

Prepworld are looking for a **Senior Production & Logistics Planner** on **Maternity cover contract (until October 2025)**:

- responsible for ensuring that the production and logistics team are conducting all appropriate activities to the required standard on a daily basis. These include producing the daily production plans, the daily plan for all outgoing finished product, and all associated paperwork.

The Senior Production & Logistics Planner is also responsible for ensuring that all of the required production planning activities are completed on a daily basis.

**Main duties**:
Ensuring all relevant planning, logistics and administration activities are completed on a daily basis. This includes playing an active part in carrying out these activities:

- Producing all daily production plans accurately and on time - volumes, run rates, WIP etc - and provided to Production team
- Producing daily outloading logistics accurately and on time - customer depot orders, pick sheets, ASNs and load manifests, and distribute to Dispatch
- Booking of vehicles though online portals and producing loads plans and delivery notes
- Ensuring any shortages are communicated to the wider business appropriately
- Ensure maximum utilisation of fruit within Production
- Send weekly and daily staff requests to agencies as required
- Authorisation of transport invoices
- Keeping planning errors to a minimum
- Plan and prioritise daily operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
- Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption
- Obtain, collate and communicate output information (service level, staff numbers, waste, overpacks, WIP adherence etc.)
- Liaising with 3rd party haulage companies regarding collection times and traffic issues to ensure 100% service level is achieved.
- Completion of Customer Issue Log
- Training Planning and Logistics Administrators to conduct all activities to the required standard.
- Compiling weekly data to support Sales Admin investigations of overs/shorts etc.
- Maintaining records and archives to support audits.
- Attending daily Production meetings - shift handover, 9am, Midday huddle
- Completion of dispatched pallet and dolly spreadsheets
- Completing all Production administration tasks as required - agency trackers, production handovers, rotas etc.
- Deputise for the Production Planning and Logistics Manager as required, e.g. meeting attendance

**Overseeing the team**:

- Ensure all direct reports take ownership on, H&S, Food Safety, People and performance KPI’s.
- Drive absolute commitment through a focus on PrepWorld’s Ways of Working.
- Ensure all departmental team members are inducted, trained and understand their roles and responsibilities.
- Provide ongoing training and support to other team members, especially new starters, to ensure all team members can complete all duties.

**Who we are looking for**:

- Previous experience in a planning / Logistics role (Highly desirable / Essential)
- Previous experience in a manufacturing environment (Essential)
- Previous experience supervising a team (Essential)
- Continuous improvement mind set, daily search for ways to improve performance and efficiency (Essential)
- Good communication skills in English (written, spoken and listening) (Essential)
- Teamwork, able to work and liaise with others to ensure team goals are successfully achieved (Essential)
- Good numerical skills (Essential)
- Good IT and database/system skills (Essential)
- First Aid Certificate & Fire Marshall trained (Desirable)

**This is a maternity cover contract, until October 2025**

**Days of work**: Sunday to Wednesday (**4 day working week**)

**Hours of work**: The hours of work are a **mix of 05.30am - 17.30pm** and **07.30am - 19.30pm** week by week, 1 hour unpaid break each day, Totalling **44hrs per week**

**Salary**: £35,000 - £37,500 Depending on experience