Production Planner
Cranswick Country Foods Poultry is a specialty producer of delicious, cooked poultry ingredients and leading innovators in our industry. We create exciting, original products that meet the needs of today’s busy consumers. Working closely with customers across retail, food service and B2B, our bespoke chicken and turkey products offer creative and flavoursome lunchtime solutions, including street food-inspired dishes, superfood salads, hot and cold sandwiches and much more.
Due to Factory expansion we are looking for a Production Planner to join the busy Planning team.
The key elements of the role are:
- To coordinate the production workflow for multiple products across all production departments
- Planning and prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Create time targeted line production schedules
- Entering orders
- Producing stock reports
- Entering/amending new and current orders
- Ensuring production schedules optimize efficiencies, whilst also meeting customer orders
- Maintain sensible stock levels for all products based on forecasts and taking into account the customer’s requirements regarding product life
- Communicating and distributing schedules to the production team and site management
- Producing various production/planning reports as requested by the management team
- Discussing collection times with Despatch to make sure that all required products are planned on time
- Liaise with sales division to determine customer requirements
- Required to liaise with production, customer services, purchasing and logistic departments. To ensure efficiency, and productivity.
Shift pattern: 4on 4off days (5am to 5pm)