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Production Planner
People Dimension
Cullinan, South Africa
Cost to Company
Full Time
23000 - 26000
Mid
2 years - 5 years
Skills and Industries
Job Description
NOTE:
Working hours
- Monday to Friday from 06h00 – 15h30
- Must be available to work ad-hoc weekends
Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Planning
- Participate and influence department strategy.
- Monitor and track against the plan.
- Develop recommendations and subsequent action plans to enable the delivery of the departmental strategy.
- Day to day interaction with team members to deliver strategy.
- Build and develop effective relationships with relevant stakeholders to highlight and determine best solution to overcome challenges to continuously improve.
- Contribute to delivering strategic plans with suppliers by liaising regularly on trend changes and tactical forecasting.
- Proactive and regular communication with key stakeholders.
- Conduct stock build plans considering capacity raw materials supply etc.
Operational Planning
- Understand and optimise supply chain and systems.
- Understand internal and external factors which impact on demand and ensure these are reflected in forecasts.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholder to maximise efficiencies.
- Identify challenges, trends and opportunities.
- Maintain Data and Systems (Master Data BOMS, MOQ’s, Rounding values lead-times ETC).
- Collate Information and Assumptions.
- Reach Consensus through Alignment.
- Share and Publish the Plans.
- Track and Manage Plans.
- Issuing daily plans/schedules for all production units.
- Resource Shift/ Labour planning.
Continues improvement
- Analysis of historical and current performance.
- Understand market / product trends as well as department focus that could impact demand.
- Implement tactical plans to support business decision making (6-18 month focus on capacity, Staffing etc.)
- Implementation and review against long term tactical plans.
- Planning initiatives / Innovation to improve planning.
Personal development
- Drive personal development.
- Create a personal development plan short and long term.
Strategic Planning
- Participate and influence department strategy.
- Monitor and track against the plan.
- Develop recommendations and subsequent action plans to enable the delivery of the departmental strategy.
- Day to day interaction with team members to deliver strategy.
- Build and develop effective relationships with relevant stakeholders to highlight and determine best solution to overcome challenges to continuously improve.
- Contribute to delivering strategic plans with suppliers by liaising regularly on trend changes and tactical forecasting.
- Proactive and regular communication with key stakeholders.
- Conduct stock build plans considering capacity raw materials supply etc.
Operational Planning
- Understand and optimise supply chain and systems.
- Understand internal and external factors which impact on demand and ensure these are reflected in forecasts.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholder to maximise efficiencies.
- Identify challenges, trends and opportunities.
- Maintain Data and Systems (Master Data BOMS, MOQ’s, Rounding values lead-times ETC).
- Collate Information and Assumptions.
- Reach Consensus through Alignment.
- Share and Publish the Plans.
- Track and Manage Plans.
- Issuing daily plans/schedules for all production units.
- Resource Shift/ Labour planning.
Continues improvement
- Analysis of historical and current performance.
- Understand market / product trends as well as department focus that could impact demand.
- Implement tactical plans to support business decision making (6-18 month focus on capacity, Staffing etc.)
- Implementation and review against long term tactical plans.
- Planning initiatives / Innovation to improve planning.
Personal development
- Drive personal development.
- Create a personal development plan short and long term.
Desired Experience & Qualification
BEng Industrial / BCom Supply Chain or equivalent tertiary qualification is required
Experience
- 2 years’ operational supply chain experience
- Preferable 1 year’s operational experience in FMCG/Food/Agri
Functional Competencies
- Sales and operations planning
- Financial or economic background
- Supply chain
- Statistical demand and forecasting techniques
- Strong mathematical and statistical skills
- Project management
Company Description
A leading meat manufacturing company, based in Cullinan, is looking for a experienced production planner to join their team.
The purpose of this position is to execute daily production schedules/plan for all production units, capacity planning, KPI reporting, measure adherence to processes , ensure master data is updated daily, monitor variances in forecasts daily, cover for materials planner when necessary. Production planner will also need to communicate all of the above to the relevant stakeholders and when required.