Production Planner

Production Planner 

Scantec Recruitment are working with a leading manufacturing business to recruit a Production Planner for their site in Salisbury. This is a  fantastic opportunity for someone to gain experience with leading organisation, who are investing and growing, along with genuine opportunities for growth and career development. 

If you're in a planning role ie, Demand, Materials or Supply Chain then we'd like to hear from you! Fully training and development provided.

Your role as Production Planner will be to produce and publish production plans that balance the needs of running an efficient manufacturing site, whilst satisfying customer demand. 

Working hours / shifts:
Continental 4on, 4off - 6am-6pm

Production Planner - Summary of role responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain planning data and system parameters, including the completion, distribution and communication of daily production schedules and shift plans to manufacturing team.

• Liaising with other departments including manufacturing, NPD, Hygiene and Engineering manage the scheduled to include time for regular maintenance and deep cleaning as needed, whilst ensuring customer service levels are maintained

• Process of customer orders, reviewing schedules and re-issuing where needed.

• Communicate and where necessary action changes to stock schedule following changes in sales figures

• Maintain finished goods inventory that generate customer service levels of 98.5 % or better, whilst ensuring write off of finished goods, due to short product life, is minimised.

• Provide data and / or highlight concerns on a range of planning / production parameters such as yield or efficiency analysis.

• Working with the manufacturing team, review, evolve and adjust the scheduling parameters, (e.g. to take in to account changes in efficiencies), to ensure accurate schedules.

• Investigation and communication of customer shortages, including production of daily shortage reports.

• To review and manage stock levels held at food service depots and plan production to meet agreed stock levels

Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

We're seeking an experienced Planner, ideally from a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Whilst FMCG would be preferred, it's not essential. You'd need to have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office – including Excel and be highly organised and motivated.