Production Planner

5 days ago

Sydney, Australia Pact Group Full time

Company Description
Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product lifecycle approach to sustainable packaging solutions.
Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

Job Description*
About this opportunity*
We have an exciting opportunity for a Production Planner to work with us to take production planning at our Blacktown site to the next level. Working closely with the Plant Manager, you will develop and deliver an optimised production schedule in terms of plant efficiencies, labour utilisation and DIFOT performance, to achieve sales and production targets aligned with our business objectives.
You will facilitate and help improve processes, as well as provide timely analysis and insights to drive decision making focused on the best outcome for the customer and business.
**Your key responsibilities will be to**:

- Plan manufacturing to meet demands of volume, quality and delivery in line with forecasts
- Manage production plans to ensure resources and processes are utilised in a way that optimises inventory, machinery, labour and facilitates the achievement of sales plans and production targets
- Liaise closely with Production, Quality, Sales Support and Technical personnel in relation to demand planning and sales forecasts
- Maintain accurate inventory of supplies, stock replenishment and continuously monitor inventory levels
- Develop production and preventative maintenance schedules, raw materials (resin etc) requirements, systems infrastructure, and stock levels in accordance with the Site operational budgets and parameters

Qualifications*
About you*
Highly motivated and committed to safety, people, quality, and plant performance, you’ll bring your knowledge of production planning gained within a manufacturing environment, as well as your desire to lead teams on the production floor.
**To be successful in this role, you’ll have**:

- Experience in a similar role within FMCG
- Solid understanding of production planning, manufacturing lead times, production capacity and limitations.
- Superior analytical skills with proficiency in SAP (SP1) and Microsoft Excel;
- Experience developing and implementing strategies to ensure continual growth and improvement.
- Continuous Improvement and problem-solving mindset
- Strong analytical capability with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Negotiation and influencing ability
- Experience using business intelligence reporting tools (desirable)

Additional Information*
About us*
Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.
We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.
As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.
For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.
Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.
That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.

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