Production Planner

Production Planner

Based in Cartlton, Barnsley, S71 3HF - The Home of Mr Kipling

Salary - From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum

Permanent - Full Time

Shifts Available from Monday to Friday (08:30am - 17:00pm)

Close Date: Friday 20th June 2025

A full time, permanent oppurtunity has become available at our Barnsley site for Production Planner to join the team. 

The successful candidate will work as part of the Supply Chain team to ensure the Coordination of production timelines, resources, and workforce availability to ensure manufacturing runs efficiently. While daily and weekly tasks focus on immediate priorities, monthly activities emphasize longer-term planning, performance tracking, and process improvements.

The successful candidate will:

• Analyse forecasts / stocks and capacity data at SKU level.
• Produce detailed weekly production / Labour plans covering up to 21 days at SKU / line level ensuring achievement of the key KPI’s of service, stock, Labour and cost.
• To carefully maintain and expedite lists of activities (promotions, price changes, product launches, packaging changes and deletions). NPD trials etc.
• To produce daily production schedules - detailing product quantities, product sequences and BB codes, Freeze coding requirements.
• In line with the medium term forecast to create and control by code strategic cold store stocks of product (particularly Christmas) to meet periods of peak demand.
• To identify stock shortages and surpluses and where possible to take remedial action with the customer stock teams or production management.
• To maintain SAP APO system database information regarding product codes, planning rates / throughputs, shelf life and product staffing levels and to identify differences from planned standards.

To support continuous improvement by advising on changes to the scheduling system which will positively affect performance. Communicate plans effectively and short-term amendments to ensure all relevant departments are aware to resource.

What skills you will need:

• Highly numerical ​  

• Advance Excel capabilities ​  

• Good with building relationships, including good conflict resolution skills and the ability to challenge​  
• Experience with Maestro/rapid response (Desirable)

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary - From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
• Up to 7.5% pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Staff discount shop on site
• Free on site parking
• Access to "The Hamper", with discounts at hundreds of nationwide retailers
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme, Occupational Health and Other Health & Wellbeing Benefits
• Sharesave Scheme
• Other salary sacrifice benefits

A great British food company 

Premier Foods is one of Britain’s biggest listed food companies, employing over 4,000 colleagues at 13 manufacturing sites and offices up and down the country.

Many of our brands have been part of UK life for more than a century and you’ll find them in 90% of British households.

At Premier foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and future colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work no matter who they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.