Overview
Factory Planner Jobs in Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa at Premier FMCG (Pty) Ltd
Title: Factory Planner
Company: Premier FMCG (Pty) Ltd
Location: Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa
Job Description
To plan and manage all production schedules ensuring production efficiency and ensuring the maximum and efficient use of all resources.
- Production Planning
- Analyse unconstrained demand against factory capacity to understand the feasibility of market demand.
- Produce a production plan, determine priority production and allocate tasks to production team.
- Track and monitor production progress until production completion.
- Coordinate trial planning periods and schedule into production plan.
- Special Occasion Planning
- Receive customer order numbers from Sales & Marketing for new products.
- Produce a special occasion plan and discuss priorities with COO.
- Provide detailed production plan to production team and allocate tasks.
- Track and monitor production progress until production completion.
Qualification Requirements
- Grade 12
- 3 year degree / diploma
Experience Requirements
- Basic literacy and numeracy
- FMCG environment in production planning role 5 years
Key Outputs
- Reporting
- Produce accurate and timeous daily production reports for Factory Manager to track actual production vs planned figures.
- Adhoc duties
- Secondary checking on materials/stock availability.
- Provide packing plan to Sales & Marketing in order to make sales decisions to customers.
- Provide deep cleaning schedule
- 5. Health and Safety
- Adhere to all Health and Safety rules and standards.
- Wear the required PPE all the time.
- Ensure the right safety equipment is available and use it in a safe and correct manner.
- Accountable for all safety equipment issued.
- Report all safety hazards, accidents and incidents to relevant parties.
- Quality
- Ensure alignment of all work process to the required quality standards.
- Proactively identify continual improvement strategies.
- Action agreed quality initiatives ensuring that they are aligned to business unit/ tasks/ processes/ systems.
- Implement corrective actions identified within specified time.