Factory Planner

Department:

Supply Chain

Site:

356 - Mister Sweet

Job Type Classification:

Permanent

Location - Town / City:

Wadeville

Job Description:

To plan and manage all production schedules ensuring production efficiency and ensuring the maximum and efficient use of all resources. Production Planning Analyse unconstrained demand against factory capacity to understand the feasibility of market demand. Produce a production plan, determine priority production and allocate tasks to production team. Track and monitor production progress until production completion. Coordinate trial planning periods and schedule into production plan. Special Occasion Planning Receive customer order numbers from Sales & Marketing for new products. Produce a special occasion plan and discuss priorities with COO. Provide detailed production plan to production team and allocate tasks. Track and monitor production progress until production completion.

Qualification Requirements:

• Grade 12
• 3 year degree / diploma

Experience Requirements:

• Basic literacy and numeracy
• FMCG environment in production planning role
• 5 years

Skills and Competencies:

• Reporting Produce accurate and timeous daily production reports for Factory Manager to track actual production vs planned figures.
• Adhoc duties Secondary checking on materials/stock availability. Provide packing plan to Sales & Marketing in order to make sales decisions to customers. Provide deep cleaning schedule 5.
• Health and Safety Adhere to all Health and Safety rules and standards. Wear the required PPE all the time. Ensure the right safety equipment is available and use it in a safe and correct manner. Accountable for all safety equipment issued. Report all safety hazards, accidents and incidents to relevant parties.
• Quality Ensure alignment of all work process to the required quality standards. Proactively identify continual improvement strategies. Action agreed quality initiatives ensuring that they are aligned to business unit/ tasks/ processes/ systems. Implement corrective actions identified within specified time.