Planning Manager

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

**Job Description**:
Pact is 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 and operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries. Our customers include some of the world's largest brands that consumers know and trust.
As a global leader in circular packaging and reuse 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.
As Planning manager at PACT's Laverton site, you will control the production planning and workload/capacity to meet customer demand, within set lead times for our household and Industrial packaging on site.Working closely with the Production, Quality, Sales and technical teams to manage accurate forecasting as well as ensuring production orders meet customer, sales and planning delivery deadlines will form a large part of your remit.
**Your key responsibilities will be to**:

- Coordinate production workflow for multiple products across various lines
- Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Determine and secure team resources, equipment and raw materials required to cover production demand
- Maintain accurate inventory of supplies, stock replenishment and continuously monitor inventory levels
- Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget
- 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
- 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
- Investigate and improve processes, productivity, quality, cost control and customer service where possible.
- Identify opportunities and act to build strategic relationships with all business areas/divisions, customers, suppliers, and contractors that are established, maintained, and improved to help achieve business goals

**Your skills and experience**
- Visible belief and demonstrated leadership in driving a Zero Harm culture
- Working background in manufacturing environment, which embraces operational excellence
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong & effective communication skills to work effectively with operations team.
- Proven background in continuous Improvement and change management experience
- Be outcomes focused with the ability to balance production, safety, and resources

**This is what you'll get from us**:
Our Pact team are passionate about innovation and constantly expanding our diverse portfolio across a variety of products and services. Our customers are the world's largest brands that consumers know and trust. If you are excited to be part of a great team that is striving to succeed and grow sustainable Australian manufacturing -* please come and join us*