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Do you want to work for one of Scotland’s leading food and drink companies, named Employer of the Year at the Excellence Awards 2024?
At Lazy Day Foods, we’re passionate about creating delicious treats that meet the highest standards of safety, quality, and inclusivity. We're a market leader in allergen-safe, gluten-free, and vegan baked goods, and we're growing rapidly. We’re currently seeking Production Planner to join our dedicated Operations Team and help ensure we always deliver on our promise to customers and consumers. This role is on a permanent basis and would suit anyone with a high degree of IT proficiency using Microsoft packages and knowledge of the food industry.
The Production Planner is crucial to our success converting customer demand into a robust, cost effective production plan. The role owns the production planning process across the shirt, medium and long term horizons, balancing demand, capacity, materials and labour, so that we can produce the right goods at the right time for the right customer, at the highest quality and best cost, providing the supply-side input that drives the Company's Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) process.
The Production Planner must collaborate with all colleagues in Production, Packaging, Despatch, Hygiene, Maintenance, and Quality Assurance as required, in a positive, helpful, and friendly manner, ensuring that the best use is made of Lazy Day Food's time and resources.
Key roles and responsibilities include:
- Food safety including - Compliance with food safety regulations
- Organisation and controlling production effectively - Including the planning of all production tasks to meet our customers orders, the monitoring, deliver and problem solving of the production plan and stock management
- Capacity Planning and S&OP - Act as the supply-side lead in the Company's Sales and Operations Planning
- Systems, Data and Analytics - Act as creator of planning systems and maintain planning models.
- Planning Horizons - Own short, medium and long term planning horizons.
We are seeking a demonstrable experience of capacity planning in a manufacturing environment, an advanced level of Microsoft skills and the ability to use data to solve problems.
A recognised planning qualification is desirable.
You'll be based on-site at our Bakery in Harthill, located between Edinburgh and Glasgow just off the M8.
Contractual hours of work are 40 per week across a working week of Monday to Friday, with flexibility on working hours
An example shift pattern would be 9 hours each day Monday to Thursday and 4 hours Friday (07:00 - 16:40 and Friday 07:00 -11:00)
About Lazy Day Foods
Lazy Day Foods has a single mission – to create delectable treats for everyone to enjoy. That means all our gorgeous goodies are gluten-free, milk- and egg-free, and vegan. Our founders, Dr Sally Beattie and Emer Bustard, are both food scientists who know first-hand all about food allergy and intolerance; they also happen to love a really good slice of cake, and that’s how Lazy Day was born.
Lazy Day Foods has grown organically from our founder’s kitchens and farmer markets in 2006, to a dedicated 26,500 sq ft BRC AA+ accredited state of the art free from facility employing over one hundred people.
The Lazy Day brand is listed with seven major UK retailers (including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons), in addition to supplying wholesalers and the food service industry with our individual portion-sized packs.
What is in it for you
This is an exciting opportunity if you love being part of a growing organisation that has the creation of the tastiest treats, products of the highest quality and the delight of our customers at the heart of everything we do. This job enables you to work in a small but perfectly formed and ever-growing team of highly skilled and committed people.
Competitive Salary
4.5 Day working week - No weekends!
Guaranteed holidays for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day
Employee Assistance Program for you and your immediate family
Flexible working
Company pension
Discounted products
Is this your dream job?
Sound interesting? Apply today!
We are a warm and friendly team, and we look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you soon!
To know more, take a look at our website www.lazydayfoods.com
Pay: From £38,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
Application question(s):
- Would you consider yourself an advanced user of Microsoft Excel?
- Do you have a recognised planning qualification (ie APICS/ASCM, CPIM or BASE)
Experience:
- Food Manufacturing: 1 year (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
