Production Planner - Value Add

SunPork Group; Kingaroy; On-site; AUD 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee wellbeing benefits

Discounts to 400+ retailers

Job summary

Swickers Kingaroy Bacon Factory, part of SunPork Group, seeks a Production Planner for a two-year fixed-term contract to coordinate Value-Add planning in alignment with raw materials, sales demand, and capacity. The role involves forecasting, scheduling, and dispatch across sites with operations and sales teams.

The position requires strong Excel skills, deadline-driven planning, and the ability to work on-site in Kingaroy, QLD.

Qualifications

• Experience using Excel for planning and analysis.
• Knowledge of production scheduling in manufacturing.
• Able to work on-site in Kingaroy, QLD.

Responsibilities

• Produce daily, weekly and long-term production schedules.
• Monitor stock levels to meet orders and customer expectations.
• Coordinate raw material availability and shelf life management.
• Collaborate with Commercial Operations and production teams.
• Provide regular reports on production performance and order fulfilment.
• Plan for launches, seasonal events and public holidays to align with demand.

Skills

Deadline adherence

Attention to detail

Time management

Teamwork

Self-motivated

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

We are currently seeking a Production Planner to join our team for our Value-Add requirements onsite for a two year fixed term contract.

This position is responsible for the effective planning of SunPorks Value-Added functions in line with raw material supply, sales demand, and production capacities. The role ensures the successful forecasting, coordination, planning, and dispatching of SunPorks production through working closely with the SunPork Commercial Operations team and the facilities production teams.

Key Duties of the role include:

• Be responsible for production scheduling for all VA requirements which includes:
  • Daily, weekly, and long-term production schedules.
  • Monitoring safety stock levels & MLOR’s ensuring we meet orders and customer expectations.
  • The tracking/scheduling of in stock raw material, ensuring shelf life is managed effectively.
  • Assist the sites in load levelling where possible to help minimize running costs.
  • Work collaboratively with the Production Planning – Fresh team to ensure that all pork raw materials are available to the facility when required.
  • Managing the externally purchased meat for the VA facilities.
  • Ensure orders are scheduled in-line with both SunPorks raw material supply and production capacities.
• Work with all relevant parties on new launches, seasonal events (i.e. Christmas, ham season, etc.) and public holidays to ensure a plan is set that works for all.
• Work closely with the sales and Customer Fulfilment team members on forecasted/upcoming orders, promos, new/deleted lines, and overruns/shortages to orders.
• Regular review of production results and order completion rates; Ensuring feedback is provided to all relevant parties as required.
• Ensure the timely communication to all relevant parties with any production related issues that will affect customers’ orders and raw material supply (internal and external).
• Provide detailed daily, weekly, and monthly reports as required.
• Proactively communicate across all sites to help improve the understanding of business priorities and objectives and to promote team ethics.
• Work with your manager and team to ensure training plans and all role backup/secondary options are up to date for times of leave, sickness, etc.
• Demonstrate and exercise a commitment to promote, develop and improve the health, safety, environment and welfare of our people and animals.
• Carry out any other reasonable and lawful directions that may be given from time to time by the company.

Job Description

Who we are

Swickers Kingaroy Bacon Factory is an export meat processing facility, based in the South Burnett Region and is ideally located just 2 - 3 hours’ drive to Brisbane, Toowoomba, Sunshine Coast and Fraser Coast. Swickers has been in operation in Kingaroy for over 50 years and today employs approximately 850 employees.

As part of the Sunpork Group, Swickers is a state-of-the-art processing facility specialising solely in the production of fresh pork and distributing it widely across Australia and internationally. Swickers processes 95% of all Queensland’s pork production, including the production of various pork value-add products for consumers worldwide. Swickers is the largest Australian owned pork processor and continues to be a market leader in pork production.

What we offer

By joining us, you will join a team – passionate about producing the best quality Aussie pork for Aussie plates.

At Swickers we provide:

• Full time, competitive salaried role.
• Employee Wellbeing Benefits including discounts to 400+ retailers.

Desired Skills and Experience

What we’re looking for

Sunpork has established an efficient, highly skilled yet diversified team. As a key member you will have:

• Must be motivated, self-driven and can work and contribute to a team environment.
• The ability to adhere to strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Prior experience with Microsoft Office, in particular Excel.
• Attention to detail and time management skills are essential.
• Effectively manage change and the challenges that this brings.

SunPork is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants must have the right to work in Australia.