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Senior Production Planner

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Gwynedd
Salary
up to £35,000 + relocation
Closing date
23 Oct 2021

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Planning, Supply Chain
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Senior Production Planner

Job ref: 62807 | up to £35,000  + relocation | Gwynedd

The company

This manufacturer is one of Europe’s leading innovators within their market sector. Their tremendous success is owed to their dedication to customer service and providing the highest quality products to some of the world’s best-known brands.

The job

The purpose of the Senior Production Planner is to keep production flowing smoothly with the required materials at an optimised cost.

This ensures a steady supply of products to customers and thereby contributing to supply chain service levels.

You will create and maintain an inventory schedule by watching trends and customer demands to make sure there are always enough products and manufacturing materials, utilising continuous improvement techniques.

Key responsibilities:

  • Ensure production plans reflect requirements.
  • Generation of weekly/monthly/quarterly line plans and highlighting any anticipated shortages or supplier constraints
  • Highlighting any bottlenecks or capacity constraints, communicating any shortages throughout the business.
  • Generate manpower and labour requirements weekly/monthly/quarterly.
  • Schedule outloads in line with plans
  • Produce weekly KPI reports within the planning function

Your experience

This is an energetic and rewarding role that would suit a confident individual with previous production planning, supply chain planning or similar experience within food manufacturing. Line management or supervisory experience is preferred.

You will be able to demonstrate analytical ability, strong communication skills plus IT proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook etc. plus a general understanding of HACCP, COSHH, QA & Management Procedures.

A driving licence is required due to site location.

More details

The Senior Production Planner job is based in Gwynedd, West Wales; however, the company would also like to hear from interested candidates who are willing to relocate – the business can provide a generous relocation package for the right candidate.

The role is paying up to £35,000 and the working hours are Monday to Friday.

How to apply

If this sounds like you and you want to be considered for the Senior Production Planner job, please click the Apply button.

What happens next?

On applying for this job, you consent to b3 jobs ltd holding your details on file to be able to contact you about your job search, for full details of our GDPR policy, please refer to the b3 jobs website. We aim to contact you within 24 hours on the assumption that your credentials fit the requirements for the role.

b3 jobs is a professional, friendly, and progressive food recruitment consultancy established in 2000 dedicated to the food manufacturing industry. We are a market leader for permanent jobs within food and drink manufacturing throughout the UK. All our consultants have considerable recruitment experience so you can be confident they have your best interests at heart when finding the perfect job for you.

Alternate job titles

Materials Planner | Supply Chain Planner | FMCG Supply Chain Coordinator | Materials Scheduler | Food Manufacturing Supply Chain Jobs | Planning Jobs | Gwynedd | West Wales

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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