Integrated Production Planning Scheduler
Job Title: Integrated Production Planning Scheduler
Contract: 6 month fixed term
Hours: 4 on 4 off, 12 hour shift.
Location: Head Office, Bolton
The Role
Keeping our bakeries one step ahead, you'll create category-level production schedules through our Integrated Production Planning system.
You'll be responsible for hourly schedules across days 2-11 and daily schedules from days 12-42, making sure everything is in the right place at the right time.
Working closely with our manufacturing and despatch teams, Customer Forecasting, Inbound Materials Planning and PCT colleagues, you'll help make sure customer demand is met through effective planning, scheduling and execution.
In short, you'll keep our plans rolling smoothly, so our products can too.
The Recipe
- Create, deliver and communicate an effective weekly, forecasted manufacturing plan in line with Company guidelines.
- Create a daily schedule plan for use in manufacturing in line with Company guidelines.
- Check and upload the baking schedule into SAP and the transfer of the production plan to the Primary Control Tower.
- Working with the other planners and PCT monitor the execution of the plan with intervention when appropriate to ensure optimisation of order fulfilment.
- Effective communications are maintained with key contacts (customer team, PCT, Operations)
- Generate and distribute any business required reports.
Essential Ingredients
- Excellent IT skills, including SAP Supply Planning capability and advanced spreadsheet skills, with confidence using pivot tables, lookups and data analysis tools. Knowledge of Access databases would be a bonus.
- A strong understanding of production planning, including maintenance, changeovers and labour constraints.
- Experience managing capacity across multiple sites and product categories is essential.
- Knowledge of manufacturing planning best practices, ideally within a fast-paced fresh food production environment.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn data into practical plans and informed decisions.
- Understands the importance of treating everyone fairly, respectfully and equally, helping to create an inclusive working environment.
- An excellent communicator who can influence, engage and build support for change across a multisite manufacturing operation.
- A natural relationship builder, able to establish credibility and work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
- Organised, proactive and comfortable juggling competing priorities, while keeping production plans rolling smoothly.
Extra Dough
At last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth.
We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.
