Job Description
Summary
The primary responsibilities of a Production & Materials Planner include forecasting the materials needed for production, coordinating with suppliers to ensure timely delivery, managing inventory levels, and optimizing the supply chain to meet production targets
Key Responsibilities
- Sourcing and expediting of all materials
- Ensuring delivery of materials in full on time, best price, best quality. Inventory levels in line with targets.
- Identifying all potential supply issues
- Notification of potential constraints prior to OOS risk
- Generate and Maintain Purchase orders
- Ensure PO dates and quantities are accurate and maintained in a timely manner
- Overdue Purchase order management
- Follow-up with supplier on deliveries to ensure they are achieved, minimising risk to production
- Produce shortage reports, expedite deliveries due to plan changes
- Providing excellent customer service for internal customers
- SLOB review and management
- Review, resolve or escalate slob - weekly
- Invoice validation, reconciliation and queries
- All Invoices processed in a timely and accurate fashion -resolve non-payment issues
- Create and update production schedules
- Schedules are created and updated with focus on key measures in collaboration with production area
- Feedback to supply planners and management on potential constraints
- Ensures that supply planners release schedules are realistic to work with
- Schedule in trials
- NPD and CI trials to be scheduled in consultation with R&D, Supply planner and team managers.
- Measure and track CFR
- Regularly review and monitor production line speeds and
Material Scheduling
- In consultation with and under the supervision of the Materials Scheduling Manager
- To procure and expedite materials for HWNZ to the company's best commercial advantage ensuring all forecast requirements are met on time and in full.
- To manage suppliers and communicate priorities daily and ensure best practices are utilised in all areas of purchasing, delivery and payment of materials
Production Scheduling
- Sequence production schedules in the most effective way to maximize production volume.
- Provide direction and support to the plant throughout the week as production and change in production and demand.
- Ensure all systems are integrated and reflect the updated plan, updating Sequencing planning systems and releasing process orders into BPCS
- Collaborate with S&OP to identify issues on the horizon that could impact plans.
- Collaborate with R&D/S&OP and the factory to schedule testing of production for new product launches
About you
- Tertiary Education ideally within manufacturing
- Computer literacy to being proficient with Excel and Word
- Previous experience in a related field
- Previous experience within a manufacturing company is a plus
- Project managing skills
- Great communications skills
- Purchase order experience
- SLOB experience is a plus
About us
- Regular Staff get togethers
- Free staff parking
- Pay for Performance - industry leading variable compensation offerings tied to company and individual performance on top of a competitive base salary package
- Parental Leave - paid time off for both primary AND secondary caregivers
- Leave Options - Purchased leave, volunteer leave and LiveWell leave programs to give you even more flexibility to plan your life and spend time on causes that matter.
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Location(s)
King Street
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
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What We Do
Kraft Heinz is a global food company with a delicious heritage.
With iconic and emerging food and beverage brands around the world, we deliver the best taste, fun and quality to every table we touch.
We’re on a mission to disrupt not only our own business, but the global food industry. A consumer obsession and unexpected partnerships fuel our progress as we drive innovation across every part of our company.
Around the world, our people are connected by a culture of ownership, agility and endless curiosity. We also believe in being good humans, who are working to improve our company, communities, and planet.
We’re proud of where we’ve been – and even more thrilled about where we’re headed – as we nourish the world and lead the future of food.
Why Work With Us
We believe that great people make great companies, and we’re growing something great here at Kraft Heinz.
Operating in over 20 global markets, across 9 functions, no matter your career goals, we have a seat at the table for you.
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