Floor Planner

Join Keelings! You will be part of a passionate team of people and a growing business. Come on the journey with us where you will grow and develop and truly feel a sense of belonging. At Keelings, we don't just grow quality fresh produce, we also nurture people and their professional development. The Keelings family always employ the best people for the job, the key to our success is the quality of the people we employ.

Our Strategic Priorities

Better Food -  We make our products better and inspire more people to enjoy produce.

People  - We support our people to learn, be at their best, contribute and deliver on their commitments, using One Keelings' standards.

Better Ways -  Every year we improve our competitiveness, efficiency and delivery through insight, technology and One Keelings.

Better World -  We improve our environmental and social impact to make a positive difference in our world.

Partnerships -  Working with Keelings creates value and long-term relationships with our customers & suppliers.

Growth -  We invest in and deliver insight led, focused, profitable growth into the future.

Keelings Values

People Matter -  We support and treat each other in a clear, fair and respectful way. We all learn, develop and encourage everyone to contribute

Teamwork -  We inspire and help each other to deliver our ambitions together as One Keelings

Integrity -  We do the right thing and deliver on our commitments

Passion for Achievement -  We motivate ourselves and each other to achieve our ambitions with energy, knowledge and courage. We are always striving to be better.

Purpose of the Role

Floor planner will schedule sales orders to production lines, assign and re-assign raw material stock as required to customer orders as per commercial, customer and technical requirements. All stock control alerts will be resolved and production orders on shift checked and issues resolved in a live production environment. Daily check finish product overs, co-operate with relevant departments.

Main Responsibilities

Re Assign raw material to forecasted / Actual orders daily in KBS II where required

Ensure all / enough raw material assigned to orders meets customer specification / requirements.

Assigning stock as per commercial and stock rules / instructions.

Plan best use of raw material for direct pick orders, production orders, and quality rejections.

Releasing orders through to warehouse / production planning screens.

Checking Stock exceptions in KBS to ensure correct stock is assigned to orders for production / despatch

Checking same day arrivals for despatch and production and reassigning stock if required.

Working with commercial to ensure that current product knowledge is shared.

Re assigning stock to production orders if there are operational stock issues and new stock is required for picking / production.

Reallocation of raw material due to miss picks in warehouse.

Updating where forecast orders have changed to actual and amending where necessary.

Checking / resolving stock control alerts and transfers in designated zone / s

Production / Production Scheduling

Scheduling production lines / orders in line with customer orders / forecasted orders in line with Customer DOT and DSL as per Production Team.

Scheduling production to include Scheduled breaks, maintenance and production line cleaning

Reschedule forecasted orders if actual order is different

Monitoring production throughout the day to ensure production is on track to meet DOTs / DSL and working with operations if changes are required to the schedule.

Changing production orders in production to ensure Customer DOTS / DSL are met if production schedules are not met throughout the day.

Changing production orders on production lines as per production Team

Reassigning stock if same day arrivals do not arrive.

Raising potential capacity / DOT red flags to the planning supervisor.

Scheduling Quality rejections to the line if / when required.

All production orders checked while on shift to ensure all aspects of production are recorded correctly in a live production environment and fixed.

Production support for set ups / changes printers /  KBS II as required

Ad hoc duties as and when required by supervisor.

Highlighting system issues to super user

Key Skills

Essential :

Previous experience in production planning / stock assigning role within FMCG

Desirable :

Good working knowledge of Keeling's current operational processes and systems is an advantage

Recruitment Process

1. CV Submission & email acknowledgment of receipt

2. Phone Screening

3. 1st Interview

4. 2nd Interview

5. Outcome & Feedback

Inclusion & Diversity Statement

In Keelings we value all perspectives and knowledge that our colleagues bring to our business. We are committed to forming a diverse and inclusive team where all can share their unique experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all cultures and backgrounds and are dedicated to forming an environment of inclusiveness and diversity where all can thoroughly feel a sense of belonging.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

If you require reasonable accommodation in submitting your application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the recruitment process, please contact recruitment_keelings@keelings.com

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