Factory Planner

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.

• Grade 12
• 3 year degree / diploma

• Basic literacy and numeracy
• FMCG environment in production planning role 5 years

• 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.