Production Planner

A leading meat processing and manufacturing company is looking for an experienced Production Planner with strong experience in operational supply chain planning, production scheduling, demand forecasting and procurement planning to join their team in Boekenhout, Cullinan.

The successful candidate will be responsible for executing daily production plans across multiple production units, coordinating capacity and procurement planning, monitoring forecasts and production performance, and ensuring accurate master data and KPI reporting. The role requires strong analytical and mathematical skills, as well as the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to optimise production and supply chain efficiencies.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in departmental strategic planning and contribute to the development of action plans.

• Monitor and track departmental performance against strategic plans.

• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Liaise with suppliers regarding trend changes, tactical forecasting and supply planning.

• Develop stock build plans, taking production capacity and raw material availability into consideration.

• Understand and optimise supply chain processes and systems.

• Monitor demand trends and ensure relevant factors are reflected in forecasts.

• Identify operational challenges, trends and opportunities for improvement.

• Maintain accurate planning data and systems.

• Collate relevant information and assumptions to support planning decisions.

• Coordinate planning alignment with relevant stakeholders.

• Prepare, publish and communicate production plans.

• Track and manage production plans and schedules.

• Issue daily production plans and schedules across all production units.

• Coordinate resource, shift and labour planning.

• Manage supplier relationships and ensure procurement compliance.

• Conduct data analysis and reporting.

• Ensure supplier pricing remains within internal costings.

• Analyse historical and current operational performance.

• Monitor market and product trends that may impact demand.

• Implement tactical plans to support business decisions, particularly regarding capacity and staffing.

• Review long-term tactical plans and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation in production planning.

Requirements:

• BEng Industrial Engineering or BCom in Supply Chain Management is essential.

• 1–2 years' operational supply chain experience is required.

• Experience in Production Planning and Barnton will be beneficial (please confirm the reference to "Barnton" in the original specification).

• FMCG experience will be advantageous.

• Strong knowledge of operational and procurement planning.

• Understanding of statistical demand and forecasting analysis.

• Financial or economic background.

• Strong mathematical and statistical skills.

• Knowledge of supply chain principles.

• Project management skills.

• Must be able to commute reliably to Boekenhout, Cullinan.

• Candidates residing in Cullinan, Rayton or the northern suburbs of Pretoria are ideally situated.

• Candidates residing outside the area must be willing and able to relocate to Cullinan at their own cost.

• Candidates applying from outside the region must include their current address in their CV and explicitly confirm their willingness to relocate at their own cost.

• Salary expectations and most recent payslip must be submitted together with the CV.

Benefits:

• Salary: negotiable.

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We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.