Production Planner (Full-time, Permanent)
On site – Aylesford, Kent
About Our Client
Our client is a leading global supplier of ingredients and premix manufacturing solutions for the food, beverage and nutrition industries. They hold strategic stocks in 35+ centres around the world to ensure continuity of supply and have liquid and dry premix manufacturing facilities in the UK, China and the USA. Their premix business is underpinned by over 40 years of experience in ingredient sourcing and distribution, servicing customers with global inventories, market expertise, and leading market positions in Vitamins, Amino Acids, Sweeteners, Preservatives, Proteins, Aroma Chemicals, and more.
About the Role
This role is responsible for planning all orders into the production and planning schedules to ensure the customers' deadlines are met to the best of their abilities. Oversee all stock control tasks related to Production Planning. Communicating with departments such as Customer Support, Quality and Production to help ensure schedule adherence and help with completion of objectives.
What's on offer?
1. Personal growth, including training and development opportunities.
2. Health Cash Plan.
3. Subsidised gym membership.
4. Discretionary bonus.
5. Access to flexible pay with Aslan.
Key Responsibilities:
6. Planning all customer orders in the most efficient way to maximise production capacity.
7. Oversee all other administration tasks related to production planning, raising batch documents, booking, etc.
8. Raw material allocation following company procedures.
9. Working closely with the Prep Room to ensure efficient stock rotation.
10. Liaise with relevant departments to ensure raw materials arrive and can be sampled within the necessary timescales.
11. Daily planning of the production/packing programs using the N1 report promptly from the order date.
12. Overseeing allocation or document queries and authorising batch changes for Production/Warehouse.
13. Participation and support in projects as and when required.
14. Minimising plan changes wherever possible by working closely with Production Team Leaders to match workload with resources.
15. Investigate system errors and issues to provide effective and timely solutions.
16. Housekeeping of write-ons/write-offs for damages, QA, spillages or end of batch.
17. Liaising with the administrator on scheduling requirements.
18. Support Warehouse to improve the system of booking in/scanners/process.
19. Support stock takes and cycle counting.
The ideal candidate will have:
20. Education to Degree level or equivalent, such as CPIM certification, is an advantage.
21. Proven experience with ERP and MRP systems.
22. Advanced Excel skills are highly desirable.
23. Excellent communication skills.
24. High attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Interested? Our client would love to hear from you!
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