Production Planner Bacon

From humble beginnings as a butcher shop, Primo is now a household name on a journey to being a purposeful food brand. We hold market leading positions, across a house of brands, in multiple categories from Smallgoods to Cheese Snacking.  

We are truly local for local, dedicated to serving our Customers and Consumers without politics: strategy, production and execution starts and ends here, and we are not burdened by the overbearing processes and approvals that often constrain companies of our size.

And last but not least, we are building a culture to match the ambition and we are proud to be part of the JBS Group.

Primo Foods has as an opportunity for a Production Planner to join the team, based at our Wacol facility. The Planner develops the plan across operational activity for production in the short, medium term and understanding production constraints in order to ensure efficiency, supply levels and minimize stock holding risk.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Produce a daily plan to achieve the MPS numbers and support the business SL through maintaining stock policy, controlling SLOB cost, and balanced operational costs and yield.
• Meat and dry goods availability analyses constraints for daily plan
• Production plan x actual previous day raw and pack, understand deviations and action with operations team.
• Daily RMR, meat ordering for next days
• Review daily FG stock projection, to escalate for supply planner issues.
• Following changeovers, ABC prioritization, stock on hold procedures, chiller stocks, std agenda and machinery breakdowns procedures
• Collaborate with production supervisors, managers and supply planners.
• Identify potential short-term risks with a focus on process improvement and risk mitigation.

About you:

• Experience in delivering high quality customer service, providing customers with options and solutions.
• Experience in a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
• Experience in the production process, capacity planning, and scheduling techniques including master production schedules.
• Knowledge of Integrated Business Planning and Integrated Tactical Planning, and Demand Management
• Exceptional Distribution Requirements Planning abilities.
• Capability to articulate key metrics and root causes of performance to stakeholders.
• Knowledge and understanding of supply chain planning.
• Excellent analytical ability with skills that enable coordination of data, including MS-Office (primarily Excel)

Benefits include (but not limited to):

• Access to novated leasing options.
• Onsite parking.
• Retail discounts with national partners
• Health insurance discounts on Bupa Health and Medibank Private
• Career development and progression opportunities.

What next?

If you’re passionate and want to be a part of the largest meat, pork and salmon manufacturer and producer in Australia, this opportunity may be for you. Apply now!