Poultry Processing Planning Manager

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Sitiawan, Manjung, Perak
Senior level
Food
The Role
The Poultry Processing Planning Manager is responsible for optimizing production planning and scheduling activities in a poultry processing plant. This role involves strategizing production to meet sales forecasts, ensuring on-time delivery, managing supply chain efficiency, conducting root cause analysis of issues, and driving continuous improvements in operations to enhance profitability and quality.
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Company Description

We are Malayan Flour Mills Berhad, an established billions ringgit public listed food manufacturing company. We aspire to be a leading food manufacturing enterprise in the region and have also diversified its business from flour milling to the sale of raw materials and integrated poultry business. Its integrated poultry business includes the breeding and sale of day-old chicks, broiler and breeder farming, processing and sale of poultry products and feeds milling. With over 50 years of experience and workforce of over 2600 in Malaysia and Vietnam, as part of our expansion plans we are seeking the right talents to be part of our winning team.

Job Description

Responsible to drive the overall planning and scheduling activities of the poultry processing plant production hence optimizing orders fulfilment, materials movement, on-time delivery according to demand and quality standards which are aligned with the company’s strategies.

  • Strategize and direct the overall master planning of production activities considering capacity constraints such as equipment, manpower, raw materials, ingredients, consumables, crates, etc to meet sales forecast and/or customers’ orders while meeting standards of safety and quality.
  • Ensure production will optimise orders fulfilment and on-time delivery in accordance to sales forecasts or customer orders whilst minimize the imbalance parts working in collaboration with sales and demand planner. Identify challenges and opportunities, perform root cause analysis on variances and recommend the action plans accordingly.
  • Monitor the business market demands and orchestrate the plant production while taking into consideration the upstream supply from the broiler farm which includes (but not limited to) managing birds’ allocation to production lines by utilizing bird size bell curve, broilers’ scratches, Coefficient of Variance (CV), harvesting and logistics, which all will have impacts on the quality of the poultry products.
  • Collaborate with Production Manager to drive optimal Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in the plant to ensure equipment is availability for production and timely completion of preventive maintenance, through close coordination with Engineers from P1 to P8.
  • Develop good liaison with FP&A team for cost-effective evaluations, Marketing for effective inventory management and profit optimization on production output (product/SKU mix) and HR on Learning and Growth.
  • Work closely with upstream broiler suppliers (Stakeholder Engagement) to reduce quality defects of birds coming into the plant; uniformity, (wing and drumstick bruises, yellow and red scratches, ammonia burns on the hock joint and foot pads). 
  • Manage the entire production scheduling at the plant encompassing optimal workforce utilisation taking into consideration the cost benefit of overtime cost against the production targets that has been set.
  • Continuously review, monitor & analyse customer requirement, supplier performance, planning and actual production in order to achieve customer’s satisfaction.
  • Optimize production planning and control with up-to-date information on demand variation affecting raw material requirements which ultimately affecting production planning and overall operation.
  • Continuously drive improvements and operational excellence in the plant production planning to achieve a lean, streamlined and effective value chain hence optimising profitability.
  • To perform any other tasks and assignments as directed by the management from time to time.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree, Diploma in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Food Technology, Food Processing Engineering, Business Administration or equivalent.
  • 7 – 8 years of working experience in the relevant field.

Additional Information

  • Winner of HR Asia Best Company to Work For in Asia for 6 consecutive years in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 & 2018
  • Winner of HR Asia Most Caring Company Award for 5 consecutive years in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 & 2019
The Company
Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
317 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1961

What We Do

Established in 1961, Malayan Flour Mills Berhad (MFM) is the pioneer in the flour milling industry in Malaysia. MFM has grown to become the leading flour miller in Malaysia with regional presence in Vietnam and Indonesia. Over the years, we have expanded into poultry integration, aquaculture, and raw material trading. In FY21, the group revenue was RM2.43 billion. MFM is one of the major poultry integrators in poultry feeds, breeding, farming with a state-of-the-art processing facility across the poultry value chain. Designed to meet the domestic and international markets, the advanced facility will process up to 300,000 birds per day. With our asset of 3,000 people, we have transformed and grown in Malaysia and regionally. Synergising with our workforce, we embrace Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) in our day-to-day business. Through our partnership with Tyson Food, Inc. and Toyota Tsusho Group, we aspire to be a leading global halal food enterprise while achieving sustainable development goals. Building the workforce of the future…Today. We invite you to be part of our team! Visit https://www.mfm.com.my/careers/ or apply via the Jobs tab in Linkedin.

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