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
• 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.