Production Planner | Bridge of Allan
| Company: | ABP UK |
| Location: | Scotland |
| Salary: | £27k a year |
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Job Ref: 2701
Reporting to:
Commercial Manager
Job Role:
ABP UK is a major division of the ABP Food Group with factories in Ireland, UK and Europe, ABP`s commitment to excellence impacts on every aspect of its business. Our teams of experienced and reliable meat experts are passionate about building lasting partnerships in the European retail, manufacturing and food service sectors.
We want the best people to work for us and we know that a supportive and friendly working environment plays a key role in attracting and retaining employees. We promote the sharing of knowledge and invest strongly in training and development.
We currently have a vacancy at our ABP Bridge of Allan site for a Production Planner. If you think you have what we are looking for we encourage you to apply for this position.
Role Definition:
-To control the killing and boning plan
-To produce the most efficient and cost effective products to meet customer demand and maximize carcass return through logistics efficiency, cost control and optimization of resources allocation
Working Hours Monday to Friday 0730 – 1700 based on site.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
-Plan, organise, direct and control all activities related to the planning function from forecast data processing through to daily production plan
-Plan kill and bone schedules to produce the most cost-effective production plan on a daily/weekly basis to maximise carcass returns
-Have detailed knowledge of retail planning process to be able to incorporate the knowledge in the production planning process
-Monitoring production throughout the day to ensure orders met for the day as required
-Liaise with Group and customers to ensure all customers` needs are met
-Provide supply chain support to Sales and Planning Manager and Livestock Procurement Manager to identify stock shortages and plan resolutions
-Maintain good relationships with existing customers.
-Maintain accurate and accessible data, records, trends and achievements against KPIs
-Address customer complaints and find solutions to issues raised.
-Utilise company database and systems to record and update plans.
-Co-ordinate with production teams to ensure plans and any changes to planned schedule are communicated in a timely and effective manner
-Co-ordinate with Technical team to ensure planned schedules can be delivered or highlight need for amendments to operating procedures and further operative training
-Providing holiday cover for other commercial roles as required
-Pricing and overseeing yields for the day/week and reporting to GM
-Any other ad hoc reports/analysis as required.
-Ensuring stock levels are at correct levels to avoid shorting any commercial customers, whilst maintaining maximum product life on stocks
-Strive to achieve maximum profitability from boning
-Effectively plan cattle requirements to meet needs of both commercial/group trade on OTM/UTM split.
-Endeavour to kill volume required to keep boning at optimum without generating small carry forward batches and keep batch change overs to a minimum.
-Plan kill and bone schedules to produce the most cost-effective production plan on a daily/weekly basis to maximise carcass returns
-Have detailed knowledge of retail planning process to be able to incorporate the knowledge in the production planning process
-Monitoring production throughout the day to ensure orders met for the day as required
-Liaise with Group and customers to ensure all customers` needs are met
-Provide supply chain support to Sales and Planning Manager and Livestock Procurement Manager to identify stock shortages and plan resolutions
-Maintain good relationships with existing customers.
-Maintain accurate and accessible data, records, trends and achievements against KPIs
-Address customer complaints and find solutions to issues raised.
-Utilise company database and systems to record and update plans.
-Co-ordinate with production teams to ensure plans and any changes to planned schedule are communicated in a timely and effective manner
-Co-ordinate with Technical team to ensure planned schedules can be delivered or highlight need for amendments to operating procedures and further operative training
-Providing holiday cover for other commercial roles as required
-Pricing and overseeing yields for the day/week and reporting to GM
-Any other ad hoc reports/analysis as required.
-Ensuring stock levels are at correct levels to avoid shorting any commercial customers, whilst maintaining maximum product life on stocks
-Strive to achieve maximum profitability from boning
-Effectively plan cattle requirements to meet needs of both commercial/group trade on OTM/UTM split.
-Endeavour to kill volume required to keep boning at optimum without generating small carry forward batches and keep batch change overs to a minimum.
Knowledge and Experience:
Experience in a similar role is required for this position and used to working in a fast paced production environment
Skills:
Excellent attention to detail
Focused, target driven and used to working on own initiative
First class communication skills and not afraid to contact people when required
Confident, round thinker
Ability to plan and prioritise workload
Anticipates and overcomes obstacles
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Focused, target driven and used to working on own initiative
First class communication skills and not afraid to contact people when required
Confident, round thinker
Ability to plan and prioritise workload
Anticipates and overcomes obstacles