£30K/yr to £35K/yr
Wales, United Kingdom
Temporary, Variable

Production Planner (Temp)

Posted by Petrie Recruitment.

Contract Type: Agency Temp

Salary / Benefits: £30-35,000

Job Elements

  • Liaise with sales department to determine customer requirements
  • Develop and manage the production schedule in line with customer requirement dates, ensuring products are ready to meet this date
  • Develop daily and weekly production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met
  • Determine material, equipment and labour requirements
  • Prepare status and performance reports and resolve production issues
  • Maintain, update and communicate the daily plan and associated process documents as required
  • Liaise with the Raw Materials Team to ensure the availability of materials
  • Liaise with Internal Sales and Transport Teams to ensure customer requirements are on schedule
  • React accordingly to changes in customer demand
  • Support a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and innovation, with an emphasis on embracing technology to maximise efficiency

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Previous experience in a fast paced Manufacturing Supply Chain environment - ideally food or food packaging manufacturing or equivalent
  • Full understanding of capacity and resource planning
  • Use of SAGE or other relevant ERP based platforms
  • Works effectively - tackling immediate demands decisively, whilst retaining a broad awareness of emerging requirements.
  • Good IT Proficiency (Outlook, Excel, Word) with the ability to learn and use business specific applications

Petrie Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.