Supply Chain Production Planner

Forza Foods Ltd ,
Pontefract, West Yorkshire
Salary: £28000 - £30000 DOE

Overview

Supply Chain Production Planner Location: Normanton, West Yorkshire, WF6 1GX Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 DOE Contract: Permanent, Full Time We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Supply Chain Production Planner to join our team based in Normanton, West Yorkshire. The Supply Chain Production Planner will create and deliver production plans for our Normanton site to meet customer's forecasts and actual orders. The successful candidate must be commercially driven, ambitious, with a “can do will do” approach and at least 3 years' experience in a Production Planning environment. The main duties of this Supply Chain Production Planner are: Gaining an understanding of all processes on site to enable efficient planning. To input and reconcile factory production to ensure adherence to plans. To communicate with production employees, to ensure timely completion and despatch of production. To ensure orders are correct and put into appropriate systems for 3rd party to then delivered to our customer within time deadlines. To communicate with meat suppliers/hauliers, to ensure timely deliveries to and from production site. Expedition of time critical items as directed by senior management. To ensure continuous supply of meat to achieve plans and orders. To input process critical documents onto appropriate systems. To help manage stocks of third-party products, ensuring full availability, with minimal waste. Skills and Experience required: At least 3 years' experience within a Production Planning environment Ideally, you will have previous relevant experience which, involved analytical thinking Educated to a degree level in a related subject: Food, Business Management, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing would be an advantage Excellent leadership potential and the ability to work as part of a team Excellent communication both face to face, written and via the telephone, organisational, analytical and attention to detail skills The ability to plan ahead, whilst working to deadlines and targets Excellent IT skills Excellent Administrative skills You will receive 10% off at ASDA in all ASDA shops and a 4% pension contribution Forza Foods Ltd slices and packs cooked meat for ASDA. We have an annual turnover of £300m and employ 1,200 staff within our Normanton operation. In January 2016 we became a wholly owned subsidiary of IPL Ltd, who in turn are a wholly owned subsidiary of ASDA We are dynamic, driven and totally focussed on satisfying our customers from start to finish; from innovative product development right through to consumer feedback and we are looking for like-minded individuals to join us Forza Foods Ltd care about their staff, we are passionate about the development, training and job satisfaction of our employees and we foster a culture of acceptance and diversity. If you are looking to develop your career within a fast-moving business and you have the skills and experience, we can't wait to hear from you If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role click on “APPLY” today, forwarding an up to date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance No agencies please.