At Batory Foods, we encourage our team to Bring YOU, Every Day because true success starts with the ability to be yourself and letting your unique talents shine. Since 1979, the heart of our success has been our people. The Friedman family established a legacy of generosity, warmth, and respect. And with core values like Invest in Relationships and Be Relentless About Improvement, each member of our team consistently strives for excellence to uphold that legacy—whether it’s related to the employee experience, our processes, or the customer journey. Join our team today and help us build a better tomorrow, together.
Benefits:
14 holidays with an end of year holiday refresh break
Health, Vision and Dental Insurance
401K Plan & Profit-Sharing program
Tuition reimbursement program
Be Positively Excellent well-being program.
Term Life Insurance Plan
Standard Disability Plan
PRODUCTION PLANNER
Job Description:
The Production Planner is responsible for creating & maintaining an optimized, executable production schedule. Handle master data to ensure accurate capacity planning and lead times for assigned orders. This role is onsite 5 days a week.
This role reports to the Production Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
Schedule production lines based on customer demand and capacity constraints.- Work cross functionally with replenishment and procurement teams to ensure schedule can be attained.
- Investigate, analyze, and initiate bills of material, and perform necessary systems maintenance.
- Execute, document, and distribute reports daily, to be used as tools for decision making by production personnel and manufacturing analyst/schedulers.
- Develop and maintain optimized sequencing to minimize planned downtime for the production team.
- Support overall manufacturing workflow visibility by providing planning and coordination of product movement throughout manufacturing process.
- Proactively work with other functional leaders across the site(s) to create synergies and maintain effective workflow.
- Leads weekly operational meetings with internal and/or external production teams to discuss the current production plan, required staff, sets priorities, and overcomes obstacles encountered.
- Measures and monitors production floor output/performance and makes required scheduling changes as needed.
- Responds to demand and supply changes in a timely and accurate manner to minimize production downtime and maintain efficiencies.
- Monitoring packaging needed to support schedule and communicating with vendors regarding packaging that might be needed.
- Develop Production KPI’s and work with operation and maintenance (Capacity Utilization, Standard operating efficiency, OOE – Overall Operating Efficiency, OEE – Overall equipment effectiveness, downtime, inventory turns).
- All other duties as assigned.
Personal Qualifications
Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Extensive knowledge in Microsoft applications required.
- Knowledge of WMS and D365;
- Strong understanding of inventory control.
- Knowledge of bills of materials required.
Education and Formal Training:
BS or Associates degree in Supply Chain or related field highly preferred.- 3-5 years capacity planning experience in a production environment required.
Batory Foods in an equal opportunity employer which considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law. In addition, Batory Foods also provides “reasonable accommodations” to qualified individuals with disabilities, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please notify us immediately.
