Production Planner

Location: Sheffield
Shift: 5 days per week to include weekends
Salary: Competitive

Production Scheduler
Our Fletchers bakery has over 125 years of baking tradition, with our Kara bakery supplying delicious wholesale bakery products for over 35 years starting with the first floured bap. Both have been part of the Finsbury Food Group since 2014. Fletchers Bakery can trace its roots back to 1895 and both bakeries portfolio of products have risen (get it?) to include gourmet brioche, traditional sliced bread, bloomer breads and vegan and gluten free options, to name a but a few.

JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: Production Scheduler
DEPARTMENT: Supply Chain
REPORTS TO (JOB TITLE): Supply planning Manager / Senior Production Planner
DIVISION: Northern cluster
LOCATION: Fletchers Sheffield

Job Purpose
• To produce and publish production plans to meet customers’ needs while balancing operations best practice

Role Key Accountabilities
• Develop and maintain production schedules to meet customer demands and company goals.
• Manage production planning to maximize output to available capacity.
• Determine, and amend if necessary, the running order of all production lines.
• Maintain finished goods inventory to achieve customer service levels of 98.5% or above, while minimizing write-offs due to short product life.
• Attend regular production review and short interval control meetings as required.
• Provide data and highlight concerns on a range of planning and production parameters such as yield or efficiency analysis.
• Consistently review sequencing of plans to reduce changeovers, meet out loading requirements, and balance labour and production resources.
• Work with Material Planners to arrange for delivery of additional materials into production departments as needed.
• Review and react to changes in customer priorities as required.
• Coordinate with production, procurement, and logistics teams to ensure seamless operations.
• Monitor production processes and adjust schedules to address any issues or delays.
• Analyse production data and performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.
• Communicate effectively with all departments to ensure alignment and resolve any scheduling conflicts.
• Maintain accurate records of production schedules, inventory levels, and work orders.
• Implement and uphold safety and quality standards in all scheduling activities.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• Good knowledge of a supply chain environment
• Experience of production planning
• Key User in M3
• IT skills e.g. Excel, MRP systems (Optimity)
• Attention to detail, commitment to high standards.
• Be self-motivated with the ability to work to tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment.

Personal Attributes
• Planning and organising – able to forward plan.
• Adapting and responding to change
• Be an effective communicator.
• Strong interpersonal skills; excellent verbal and written communication skills

Dimensions
• Key Working Relationships:
◦ Logistics Team
◦ Demand Planning Team
◦ Supply Planning Team
◦ NPD & Process & Commercial Teams
◦ Purchasing
◦ Planning & Materials Team
◦ Operations Teams
◦ Off-site providers
Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
◦ Customer Service Level
◦ Write off of finished goods due to being below depot life for customers
Other Role Information
• This role sits as part of the 3rd pillar of the Supply Chain Group Structure of which covers the Customer Demand and Forecasting, Logistics/Distribution and Warehousing, Supply Planning and under pinned by a Sustainability Pillar .

What’s in it for you?
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!