Production Planner at Green Marble Recruitment

ROLE OVERVIEW: 

• The Production Planner develops and manages production plans by aligning demand with factory capacity, prioritising schedules, and ensuring efficient execution from planning through to completion.
• The role involves coordinating special production runs, monitoring progress, and delivering accurate and timely reporting, while supporting material planning, packing schedules, and continuous improvement initiatives in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

Minimum requirements:

• Grade 12.
• Relevant 3-year Degree or Diploma.
• Basic literacy and numeracy.
• 5 years’ experience in an FMCG environment within a production planning role.

Personality Traits:

• Communication (written and verbal).
• Compliance requirements.
• Computer literacy.
• Negotiation.
• Planning and organising.
• Problem solving.
• Time management.

Duties and responsibilities:
Production Planning:

• Analyse unconstrained demand against factory capacity to determine the feasibility of market demand.
• Develop production plans, determine production priorities, and allocate tasks to the production team.
• Track and monitor production progress through to completion.
• Coordinate trial production periods and integrate them into the production plan.

Special Occasion Planning:

• Receive customer order numbers from Sales and Marketing for new products.
• Develop special occasion production plans and align priorities with the COO.
• Provide detailed production plans to the production team and allocate tasks accordingly.
• Track and monitor production progress through to completion.

Reporting:

• Produce accurate and timely daily production reports for the Factory Manager to compare actual production against planned figures.

Ad Hoc Duties:

• Perform secondary checks on material and stock availability.
• Provide packing plans to Sales and Marketing to support customer sales decisions.
• Develop and maintain deep cleaning schedules.

Health and Safety:

• Adhere to all health and safety rules and standards at all times.
• Wear required personal protective equipment at all times.
• Ensure the correct safety equipment is available and used safely and correctly.
• Take accountability for all safety equipment issued.
• Report all safety hazards, accidents, and incidents to the relevant parties.

Quality:

• Ensure alignment of all work processes to the required quality standards.
• Proactively identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Implement agreed quality initiatives aligned with business units, tasks, processes, and systems.
• Execute corrective actions within specified timeframes.