AddressPosition:Production Planner
Location: Braeside VIC 3195
Role Type: Full Time – Onsite
We are seeking a highly skilled individual to join our team as a Production Planner, where you will play a critical role in optimising production processes, managing materials, resources, and ensuring seamless operations.
About Us:
GALE Pacific is a leading provider in specialised textiles and polymer coated materials. With a strong focus on innovation and quality, we deliver cutting-edge and sustainable products to our customers. Our success is driven by our experienced team who are dedicated to excellence in every aspect of our business.
About You:
We’re searching for an experienced, pragmatic and motivated individual with an innate curiosity for finding solutions. You will unlock opportunities in our production planning processes, working with other planning professionals and manufacturing leaders to achieve safe, quality throughput of coated fabric and paper products for Commercial applications.
The Role:
The Production Planner position is responsible for developing the short, medium and long term production plans for GALE Pacific’s manufacturing facility located in Braeside. This position acts to coordinate production and raw material related planning, purchasing and scheduling matters and works closely with other departments to resolve production issues. The role also consults and provides production scheduling insights to customers regarding planned completion of orders.
Reporting to the Production Manager, the successful candidate will be required to:
- Ensure HSE standards and procedures are maintained at all times, following all procedures and safety practices, and leading others by example
- Develop and maintain production plans for short (0-3 months), medium (3-12 months) and long (12 months +) in line with sales targets, forecasted demand and inventory targets.
- Monitor the planning and purchasing of appropriate raw materials associated with production plans, highlighting requirements or shortfalls to the Procurement Manager.
- Work alongside Manufacturing and Demand Planning, Customer Service, Procurement, Sales, Marketing and Manufacturing teams to ensure schedules and ETAs are communicated
- Ensure accurate entry and maintenance of master data for Production Planning, including product codes, raw materials, bills of materials and routings.
- Participate in the S&OP process through sharing of production capacity related information and issues.
- Provide detailed reporting and visibility of information to the business in a regular, highly structured manner.
- Optimise planning schedules, adapting to changing priorities and investigating any non-conformance impacting delivery to customer
- Develop skills to enable coverage as 2IC to Production Manager
The successful candidate should have:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
- High level of competence with MS Office (especially excel)
- Strong understanding of production planning principles, techniques and methodologies
- Microsoft Dynamics365 experience or other ERP platforms
- Experience in production planning in a multi-line / complex manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of plastic extrusion or processing would be beneficial
- Highly analytically minded, developed problem solving capability, strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact across all levels of the business
- Work Safe Home Safe - Focused safety culture and practices
- Supportive leadership and team environment
- Professional learning opportunities
- Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Offroad parking & Nespresso Coffee!
From the humble beginnings of an Australian family business, we are now recognised as a world leader in the research, development and manufacture of advanced polymer fabrics.
GALE Pacific is now a public company (ASX: GAP) and employs over 600 people around the globe, operating in Australia, China, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. The opportunities for growth are endless.
GALE Pacific has grown from its base in high quality polymer shade fabrics to be a marketer of products that enhance your home lifestyle and deliver smart and practical solutions across a broad range of domestic and commercial applications.
GALE Pacific strives to be an equal opportunity employer. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need, not personal or protected attributes. We welcome applications from all cultural backgrounds and experience. Please advise us of any assistance you require throughout the recruitment process.
Please apply with an updated CV/Resume showing your suitability for the role.
As part of our recruitment process, candidates may be asked to complete online psychometric testing, medical assessments (including Alcohol & Other Drug) and virtual / onsite interviews.
