Job Description

At PDM Produce we are growers and creators of delicious salads, from crunchy heads of iceberg, to superfood salads bursting with flavour and nutrients, all from our farm in the heart of the country, direct to the shelves of our customers.

We are the UK's first vertically integrated fully prepared bagged salads operation. We're third-generation farmers who believe in nurturing the ground we work on to produce great-tasting whole head and prepared salads. Our family business has spanned more than two decades, making us experts in the field, and one of the UK's leading salad growers and most innovative prepared salad businesses.

Set in the beautiful Shropshire countryside, our 3,800-acres of fields are home to a variety of salad crops. We are constantly evolving and innovating, committed to ensuring quality for our customers and the consumer. Grown, picked and packed with care, the PDM family are proud to produce the very best in tasty, nutritious salads, from the land we are entrusted with.

Main Role

:

The role is working a shift pattern of 4 days on and 4 days off. Working 06.00 - 18.00

1.

Productivity and Planning

Labour forecasting

PPM Planning windows

Conformance to plan

CI Projects

Accurate Stock Allocation

Capacity Planning

2.

New Product Development (NPD)

Conformance to plan and NPD windows allowing successful trial time and product launch

3.

Food Safety and Quality

Hygiene windows and cleaning compliance

Raw material arrival times plus online grading costs

Key Responsibilities:

1. Productivity and Planning:

Monitor shift performances to ensure efficiencies are achieved by the production team to complete the production plan on time in full whilst ensuring labour budget is achieved.

Ensure accurate forecast of labour requirement to achieve forecasted plan.

Using continuous improvement tools, review areas where more efficient processes can be put in place.

Lead efforts on cost controls through efficient planned labour usage.

Work closely with commercial forecasting and stock control team to create and develop daily and weekly production plans

Advise on production gaps and bottlenecks that could impact extended working and overtime requirements

Create and issue daily production plans and work orders efficiently to meet delivery deadlines to customer.

Proactively manage stock, ensuring correct raw materials are available for and issued to production.

Allocate and issue materials to order

Maintain Woodstar system and update jobs and times ensuring production runs are packed on time for dispatch. Liaise with transport team to put plans into place for if production runs are not ready for dispatch.

Monitor performance to plan and feedback at daily meeting. Proactively troubleshoot and resolve planning/scheduling issues following periods of downtime.

Monitor inventory and stock levels against demand, communicating with the supply chain to avoid shortages.

Shift handover creation to ensure that all planners are working autonomously

Capacity planning

2. New Product Development:

Take ownership of planning NPD activities in production, including new launches, pre pros and trials ensuring that these have a minimal impact on production output and efficiency.

3. Food Safety and Quality:

Work closely with Procurement and Farms teams to ensure that raw material arrives on time for production at the best quality possible for the factory to produce efficiently.

Ensure that sufficient planned downtime windows are in place to deliver the hygiene cleaning schedule.

Knowledge and Behavioural Competencies:

1. Excellent communicator

2. Strong man management skills

3. Capable of challenging performance of commercial, Operations and Engineering

4. Enthusiastic and assertive

5. Full understanding of manufacturing processes

6. Strong Excel skills

7. Familiar with distribution and planning schedules and contingency procedures

8. Understanding of production costings and standards

9. Conversant with statistical forecasting methods

10. Familiar with customers' promotion periods and mechanics

11. People development: Potential for having direct reports requiring coaching and mentoring

12. Contributor to cross-functional project teams

All training given, working alongside current colleagues

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 32,000.00-34,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Canteen Casual dress Company events Company pension Enhanced maternity leave Enhanced paternity leave Free parking Life insurance On-site parking
Work Location: In person