Production planner

Minimum requirements: Grade 12. Relevant 3-year Degree or Diploma. Basic literacy and numeracy. 5 years’ experience in an FMCG environment within a production planning role. Personality Traits: Communication (written and verbal). Compliance requirements. Computer literacy. Negotiation. Planning and organising. Problem solving. Time management. Duties and responsibilities: Production Planning: Analyse unconstrained demand against factory capacity to determine the feasibility of market demand. Develop production plans, determine production priorities, and allocate tasks to the production team. Track and monitor production progress through to completion. Coordinate trial production periods and integrate them into the production plan. Special Occasion Planning: Receive customer order numbers from Sales and Marketing for new products. Develop special occasion production plans and align priorities with the COO. Provide detailed production plans to the production team and allocate tasks accor...