Production Planner

4 months ago

Pinetown, South Africa Ad hoc Full time

As a Production Planner, you are responsible for **scheduling and coordinating the manufacturing process** to increase efficiency, minimize waste, and optimize resources.

You must have expertise in planning, organizing, and evaluating production schedules, raw materials, and labour requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

- Production Planning
- Materials Planning
- Relief/Stand-in for Manufacturing Manager
- Continuous Improvement
- Stock/Inventory Management

Key communication and relationships
- Reports to and refers exceptions and deviations to Manufacturing Manager for resolution
- Communicates daily and weekly production plan requirements to stakeholders to ensure smooth material and production flow to achieve service level targets
- Communicates daily with stores operators, document controller, finished product administrator and forklift drivers
- Communicates daily demand change exceptions to meet unforeseen demand deviations to production packing and mixing supervisors
- Collaborates weekly with customer service, HO warehouse and production teams to ensure optimum production schedules to meet customer and business requirements

**Formal Qualifications**

**Minimum**:
Matric

Experience in Production planning (QBE)

Must be able to communicate in English

**Prior Experience**

**Minimum**:
5+ years’ experience in production and planning

Preferred, previous experience in manage staff

Application of continuous improvements

**Special Training**

**Minimum**:
In-house training on products and stock material items

In-house training on OMNI system

In-house training on operational processes

**Critical Knowledge and Skills Required (Soft skill competencies)**

(e.g. self-control, judgement, initiative)

Organized, Good Planning skills, Ability to prioritize, Good problem-solving skills, Attention to detail, Collaborative

Assertive, Strong Command Skills, Directive, Good Interpersonal skills, Good Communication skills

**DECISION MAKING**

**(What are the most regular and complex challenges of the job? Please provide a couple of examples of regular problems that need to be resolved and not ad hoc scenarios or cases. Also indicate how these problems or challenges will be resolved)**

Determining weekly production plan for mixing and production packing within constraints of available labour pool and machine availability affected by breakdowns(BD) and Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)

Determines sequence and size of production orders for respective process lines to optimize effective utilization of resources (Man & machine) whilst achieving agreed service levels

Established size and locations of staging area for respective process lines

Determines daily staging requirements for respective production lines in conjunction with production supervisor

Prioritization production requirements for process line in collaboration with Production packing supervisor

Determining root cause and possible solutions to production productivity underperformance and quality nonconformances

Determining root cause and possible solutions to Safety and Environmental incidents

Refer any proposed solution that incur additional costs for implementation or changes to processes to manufacturing manager

**PLANNING**

**(What type of planning is required in the job - give examples. How far into the future does the position plan for - 1 day/1 week/1 month/ 1 year etc)**

Planning time frames are weekly (10calendar days) for production planning requirements

Continuous Improvement Projects timeframe up to 3 Months

Creates and issues the picking lists daily for respective production lines according to fixed daily plan

Schedules transfers and receipts of materials to meet plan within assigned storage space limitations

Plans implementation of continuous improvement initiatives

Plans and coordinates production of new products

Root Cause analysis and implementation one month

Daily exceptions management to ensure material availability to meet production plan within constraints of storage space allocation

**ACCOUNTABILITY**

**(What type of decisions can the jobholder take within his/her area of accountability and what type of decisions will typically be referred to the direct manager for sigh off? Please provide a couple of examples of regular decisions/problem solving or judgement calls and not ad hoc scenarios or cases)**

Feedback on requests for finished product availability within 4(four) hours from when the request was submitted by sales or warehouse

Achieve the Finished Products levels at HO warehouse are at target stock levels on 1st of month

Investigate and feedback on stock outs for GD finished products and Cat A customer brands

On-time fulfilment of committed “Make-to-Order” Sales Orders

Supply of product on-time, as per committed dates for transfer and availability to HO distribution warehouse

Materials are availability, production able execute issued production plan without delay [waiting time].

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