A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing

• Plan Material Requirements – Order ingredients and materials using just-in-time principles, ensuring they are available to meet production schedule requirements.
• Manage Inventory Levels – Regularly review material inventory, arrange stock checks and reorder when required, including managing stock reductions when products are delisted.
• Coordinate Deliveries – Book deliveries onto site, monitor overdue planned deliveries and work with suppliers to address underperformance or potential supply issues.
• Maintain Purchase Orders – Manage SAP purchase orders and material contracts, ensuring contracted volumes are called off and outstanding balances from time-based contracts are closed.
• Support Scheduling and Finance – Attend daily scheduling meetings, respond to schedule changes, raise ad hoc requisitions and provide information to resolve invoice queries and prevent blocked invoices caused by incorrect plant receipts.

We’re Looking for Someone With

• Manufacturing experience and an understanding of planning and scheduling processes.
• Knowledge of non-bulk warehousing and bulk storage procedures.
• Numerical and analytical skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to work to deadlines.
• Experience influencing operational or shift-management decisions.
• The ability to provide weekend scheduling cover, out-of-hours support for material-supply issues and holiday cover for the Scheduling Administrator.
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