Production Planner

Production Planner
Location: Cricklade, Swindon
Package: £29,786 – £31,000 (dependent on experience) + Bonus and other Company benefits                        
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 7am – 3pm
Reporting to: Production Manager
 

Protecting what matters, together
We’re dedicated to protecting what matters most – our people, our customers, our communities and the environment. At Macfarlane Packaging, our commitment to customer satisfaction, sustainability and continual improvement creates a highly collaborative, supportive and friendly workplace where you can unpack a career that grows.
 
With history stretching back over 75 years, we offer stability whilst always striving for continual growth. Our fast-paced, results-driven approach will challenge and often stretch you, but it will also give you opportunities for personal and professional development. Every colleague has the chance to directly influence our success, leading to real job satisfaction and achievement, at all stages of your career.
 
We provide competitive pay and personalised incentives, alongside adaptable benefits to make your rewards package go further. And additionally, the way we work prioritises work-life balance and flexibility, empowering our colleagues to manage what is most important to them. Our business values commitment, diligence, teamwork, adaptability and a thirst for learning… so if this sounds like you, come and join us to help drive change that enables businesses to plan for a better future.
 
The Company
GWP, one of the UK's leading packaging manufacturers (now part of Macfarlane Packaging), are looking for a Production Planner to join our established team. You will become part of a business established for more than 30 years, with a strong history of producing sustainable and environmentally friendly packaging.  Being part of Macfarlane PLC (the UK's largest packaging distributor) and experiencing strong growth over the past three years.
 
The Production Planner Role
We are looking for a Production Planner to join the production team. You will be responsible for completing the daily and future plan for the production processes ensuring the routing from process to process and considering the changing demands from customers and internal departments. GWP specialize in supplying their customers just in time and this requires a high element of flexibility in the production of our products.
 
The Production Planner Key Responsibilities
• Prepare the production schedule and communicate it to the production team with the Production Manager.
• Ensuring delivery dates for raw materials align with the production plan and constantly review.
• Communication with raw material suppliers regarding changes to the plan to control stock levels.
• Reviewing the production schedule and amending it depending on changing customer demands.
• Communication with internal departments about progression of works orders.
 
Do you have the correct profile?
• Previous planning experience in a fast paced environment.
• Use of IT systems including MS Office. (Excel and Outlook required)
• Use of a manufacturing Planning / MRP package.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Ability to adapt and change plans to a changing workload.
• Planning within a service led business (preferred)
• JIT/Kanban production – batch methods (preferred)
 
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds irrespective of your age, gender, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, gender expression, religion or sexual orientation. Should you require any specific support or adjustments during the recruitment process, please email our recruitment team directly.
 
The Benefits
We provide a competitive basic starting salary and operate a rewarding bonus scheme.
The flexible employee benefits can include:-

• 23 days annual leave plus all public / bank holidays
• Long service awards (10-40 years)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Employee assistance programme to support and advise with well-being and any issues

 
How to apply/next steps
This is an urgent appointment whereby we will be working to identify and review the very best of applicants swiftly in the hope of selecting our favoured candidate to commence with us as soon as possible.  To make an application please simply click ‘Apply’ ensuring that you CV is up to date and relevant.
 
All applications will be acknowledged, shortlist applicants normally hearing from us within two to three weeks.  Unsuccessful applicants will also be notified at the end of our process, although if you haven’t heard from us within four weeks of applying, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
 
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