About Moy Park

Moy Park is one of the UK’s top 15 food companies and one of Europe’s leading poultry producers. Moy Park is the European Division of Pilgrim’s Pride and employs over 12,000 people across 12 manufacturing locations in the UK, France and Holland.

People of Moy Park

We are passionate about our people and recognise our teams, along with their individual drive and passion, are the reason for our continued success. This is your opportunity to join a forward-thinking, exciting business- applying to join our business is easy.

Your role

Responsibility for the creation and communication of factory production plans, with the goal of achieving 100% service level at least cost. The Planner will have responsibility for weekly capacity planning and for ensuring service levels are protected while ensuring stock levels are kept to a minimum.

Responsibilities:

1.Daily responsibilities

• To effectively plan the factory by producing accurate schedules for production, ensuring minimal waste, through daily manipulation of the planning tools, order management and inventory control.

• Work with the purchasing department to ensure all material will be here on time and in full
• As a multi-skilled team share and cover duties linked to all core areas of the function, these include but are not limited to:
  • Meat Supply - ensure orders/amendments are communicated to the Meat supply team, to ensure delivery on time in full

• Frozen Stock - Ensure appropriate tool is in place to review all frozen stock holdings to minimise waste and maximise CSL
• Meat substitutions - be commercially aware and react accordingly

• Contribute to reviews of proposed new products and specifications particularly regarding effect on production patterns and scheduling to maximise efficiencies

2.Communication

• Liaise with other departments on and off site ensuring effective service and communication – Production, Commercial, Stores, Distribution and Technical.
• Liaise with the Engineering Dept to ensure Preventative Maintenance Schedules are maintained and delivered to ensure targeted levels of line availability are met.
• Liaise with sister sites to ensure best utilisation of resources, and ensuring the protection of CSL

3. Stock control

• Monitor stocks daily and react in a timely fashion to minimise waste.
• Root cause and understand all deviations to the forecast resulting in over/under stocks and take appropriate corrective action to minimise the commercial impact to the business.

What you’ll need

• Previous production/distribution/planning experience
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Communication and Organisational skills
• Numerical Skills
• Attention to detail
• Flexibility in working hours
• IT Literate – experience using Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical skills

Perks of Moy Park

• Competitive salary
• Above statutory holiday entitlement
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working
• Continuous training provided
• Free on-site parking
• Discounted employee shop
• Life cover
• Shopping discounts