Factory Planner at Premier FMCG (Pty) Ltd

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.

Deadline:27th May,2026