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Production Planner

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
South West England
Salary
£25,000 - £35,000
Closing date
1 Sep 2022

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Contract Type
Interim
Function
Graduate, Operations, Planning, Supply Chain
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Production Planner

£25,000 - £35,000
Dorset
Dairy Food Products
Maternity Cover Contract – 10 Months
Job ref: 8176

The company

This is a very well-established company with a passion for traditional food production methods. They have an excellent team of long-term employees who share the company’s beliefs and high standards. Selling into retail in the UK, they also have a thriving export side mainly into the USA.

About the Production Planner job

The purpose of your role will be to assist with scheduling the production in the most efficient way possible, ensuring that agreed stock levels and customer service are always maintained.

Key tasks:

  • Produce a weekly production schedule for the site to enable packing lines to run at maximum efficiency, minimising product changes, size changes and clean downs.
  • Raise works orders for all required production.
  • Maintain all documents, systems, and spreadsheets.
  • Schedule the further product processing at third party premises.
  • Communicate effectively with the technical team in the event of any non-conformance to standard operating procedure.
  • Check finished stocks and blank stocks on a weekly basis and replenish accordingly considering customer demand and forecast requirements.

Skills & experience required for the Production Planner job

This role could suit a supply chain graduate who is looking to gain experience. This position will offer you excellent exposure to and the opportunity to learn about food industry production planning processes.

You will have some experience working in a supply chain or production planning related role, most preferably in food manufacturing – this could be from a university placement.

Or this may suit an existing Production Planner, Supply Planner or similar looking for a challenge.

Other skills include:

  • Knowledge of warehouse management and MRP systems is desirable.
  • Numerate and literate, with outstanding attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

More details

The Production Planner job is based in Dorset and is paying £25,000 to £35,000 according to your experience.

This is a 10 month maternity cover contract, with the potential to become permanent.

The working hours are 42.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm.

How to apply

To be considered for the Production Planner job, please click the Apply button.

After you have submitted your CV, we will aim to contact you in 1-2 business days on the assumption that your skills and experience match the job requirements.

On applying for this job, you consent to b3 jobs ltd holding your details on file to contact you about your job search. For full details of our GDPR policy, please refer to the b3 jobs website.

Alternate job titles

Material Planner | Production Planning Jobs | Demand Planner | Raw Materials Planner | Supply Chain Planner | Food Manufacturing Planning Jobs

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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