Production Planner - Meals, Wigan

☞ Bakkavor

View: 103

Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: Wigan North West

Category: Executive management Production / Operation

Industry: Food & Beverages Food Production Staffing Recruiting

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

Loading ...

Job content


Job Description

£21,500 - 25,000 (dependent on experience)
33 days holiday inc BH
Tuesday - Saturday 8:00 - 17:00
Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

JOB DETAIL
A fantastic opportunity for a Production Planner to facilitate the smooth running of the factory from receiving customer orders to dispatching finished goods. You will use bespoke IT software to manage the daily work order and a 31 day rolling forecast (Launches/Promotions/De-Lists). You will drive the production plan ensuring Customer service levels are maintained and KPI’s are delivered. Reviewing current practices and continuously look at alternative ways to improve will also be a key part of your remit as well as working closely with counterparts outside of the planning function to deliver improvement projects when required.

Qualifications

It is essential that you meet the following criteria:

Computer literate with good understanding of Maths.
Must be able to work accurately and logically paying attention to detail.
Flexible approach and awareness of responsibilities.
A comprehensive understanding of the planning process, enabling the development of continuous performance improvement plans covering projects, efficiency and quality
Strong communication skills with a confident approach

What will you do?
  • Establish best practices across teams/ shifts
  • Ensure realistic, achievable, accurate information is supplied to operations in a timely way
  • Keep planning manual & training matrix updated with all current processes & procedures
  • Control WIP & FG stocks to minimise OOD material
  • Support the PM in delivery of department & site strategy
  • Establish meeting schedule to keep ops & planning up to date with daily current reality. React to situation, elevate as necessary
  • Cultivate customers contact at appropriate level to foster good working relationships with customer supply teams
  • Report & analyse KPIs, discuss with team & create improvement strategy

About you
  • Be working for a chilled food manufacturer
  • Have excellent computer skills
  • Be able to drive change and work under your own initiative.

About Us

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

Bakkavor Meals, based in Wigan, specialises in making chilled ready meals, food to go salads and vegetable accompaniments and employs around 1200 people. Key to the site’s success is the quality, commitment and determination of our people.

Loading ...
Loading ...

Deadline: 21-06-2024

Click to apply for free candidate

Apply

Report job
Loading ...
Loading ...

SIMILAR JOBS

Loading ...
Loading ...