Production Planner – Award-Winning Business

Production Planner – Award-Winning Business
Southend-on-Sea, Essex 
c£30,000 Plus Contributory Pension Scheme, Life Assurance, 25 Days’ Holiday  

Are you a diligent production planner from a manufacturing background? Want to develop an engaging and rewarding career with a well-established family business? If so, our client would love to hear from you. 

Serving a variety of sectors, our client is an award-winning provider of innovative packaging solutions. Planning and scheduling their operation is fundamental to their ongoing success and, as such, our client is now looking for a Production Planner to join them. 

Joining a small, close-knit team, you’ll have the chance to work with leading blue chip confectionary brands and pay an integral role in enhancing our client’s production process. 

As a Production Planner, you’ll ensure that our client’s orders are manufactured in a cost-effective manner, to quality specifications and in-line with customer order dates. 

In this important position, you will: 

- Liaise with the Sales Order Office to identify customer requirements 
- Co-ordinate the required manufacturing equipment, raw materials and workforce 
- Develop a robust production schedule 
- Troubleshoot issues during the production process, such as staff shortages and machinery problems
- Monitor the cost of production and raw materials 
- Collate and assess data regarding overall production performance 
- Assist with the implementation of new production processes 
- Preparing a range of reports 

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, you’ll need significant multi-year production planning experience, gained within a manufacturing environment. A resourceful and adaptable approach is also key. 

As the Production Planner, you’ll be a passionate self-starter who works well, both on your own initiative and within a team. Detail-oriented and analytical, you’ll also have exceptional planning, prioritisation and time-management skills.  

Previous packaging or print experience would be beneficial to your application, but this is by no means essential. 

To apply for the role of Production Planner, please apply via the button shown. 

This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

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