Uk Planner

Are you our missing Ingredient?

UK Planner

£32,367 Plus 10% Bonus

Mon to Thurs 8am to 5pm; Fri 8am to 4pm

Dairygold processes 1.48 billion litres of milk a year, with an annual turnover of €1.65 billion. The society is structured across three imperative divisions; food ingredients, agri business and retail, that drive and support our farmers and business.

Dairygold Food Ingredients UK is the No 1 cheese ingredient solutions supplier to the UK’s major food manufacturers, retailers and food service customers. We have achieved rapid growth over the last five years and have ambitious plans for this to continue. ‘AA’ Grade BRC accredited, we’ve invested heavily in our people and recognise that recruiting, retaining and developing talent are critical to our future success.

Our site in Leeds manufactures high quality, functional soft and liquid cheese and our customer base and range of end product applications is growing rapidly. Our site in Crewe formats cheese to different customer specifications. Our highly automated sites have benefited from multi-million-pound investment programmes to support our growth agenda, and to remain at the forefront of a highly competitive and fast-moving market.

Role Profile

Reporting to the Planning Manager, as one of three UK Planners you will be responsible for preparing daily and weekly production schedules across two UK production sites. Working closely with all Operational departments you will keep abreast of orders and amends, raw material availability, production progress and transport to ultimately deliver on time in full to our valued customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare daily and weekly production schedules, optimise production runs in relation to changeovers, waste, labour and raw material. Ensure close dialog with all production teams around changes and performance data
• Download reports to validate our current position, re-planning and issuing to the factory
• Work closely with Customer Services to advise best solutions on out of lead time orders and customer amendments
• Generate weekly stock out reports and issue to the business
• Create and update weekly labour and capacity plans, presenting weekly to management teams
• Work with our chosen haulage partners to plan transport and deliver to our customers on time in full
• Download reports to validate material position, raise requisitions and place orders with suppliers to ensure optimum stock holding
• Deal with availability issues that might impact on schedule and identify options and solutions
• Provide daily and weekly KPI data, identifying areas of deviation.

What you will bring to Dairygold

· Production planning experience within a FMCG environment, and some understanding of materials and transport planning

· Excellent attention to detail & ability to work with data to consider all variables in producing production and raw material plans

· Intermediate to advanced Excel knowledge and be able to confidently communicate, articulate and present information

· Experience with Oracle and OBIEE would be advantageous.

· Good organisational skills and tenacity to ensure you meet tight deadlines

· Personable and confident with ability to build positive relationships across sites

The position offers an attractive basic salary, performance bonus and contributory pension scheme. If you are a results orientated, highly organised individual with excellent system and people skills then look no further.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £32,367.00 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Performance bonus

Work Location: In person