Planning Manager (Monday- Friday)
Cranswick Prepared Poultry is a speciality producer of delicious, cooked and breaded poultry products and is a leading innovator in the industry. We create exciting, original products that meet the needs of today’s busy consumers and have an exciting opportunity to join our team.
The Planning Manager will be responsible for managing all aspects of scheduling the factory and purchasing of raw material, packaging and ingredients.
The main duties would include:
- Manage the team of Production Schedulers and Material Resource Schedulers
- Manage the efficient scheduling of the factory
- Managing overall site stock levels of raw material, packaging and ingredients and rotation of these
- Master data creation and maintenance and to understand the impact this has on each department
- Ensure all team members are trained adequately on any task to be undertaken
- Provide support to the operations team to drive effective plans throughout the factory with constant focus on improvement
- Manage the site capacity plan and ensure all new products are accurately planned before passing feasibility
- Any other responsibilities commensurate with the post. Any other reasonable requests made by the Senior Management
The ideal successful candidate would be determined to create and maintain their own standards within the department and be able to deliver results in a high pressure environment. In return, the role will be rewarding and challenging, and expect to be developed within the role to succeed.