Labour Planner - East Kilbride

ZipRecruiter; East Kilbride; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in East Kilbride is seeking a Labour Planner to manage workforce requirements and ensure alignment with production plans. Responsibilities include developing labour plans, managing relationships with labour providers, and financial tracking. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, previous planning experience, and proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, especially Power BI and Excel.

Benefits

Annual performance-related pay bonus

Share scheme

Competitive pension contributions

Laundered uniform

All safety equipment provided

Subsidised canteen on-site

Free hot and cold drinks

Free parking

Excellent parental benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a labour planner role or similar is essential.
• Must be skilled in Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead labour planning for site production requirements.
• Develop and standardise labour planning tools.
• Maintain annual rota and perform financial analysis.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Prior experience in a labour planner role

Accomplished user of Microsoft Office

Ability to make sound decisions

Natural networker

Great organization skills

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Labour Planner – East Kilbride

Permanent

Annual performance related pay bonus + Share scheme + Competitive pension contributions + Laundered uniform + All safety equipment provided + Subsidised canteen on-site + Free hot and cold drinks + Free parking + Excellent parental benefits

What you become part of:

East Kilbride Operations produce 20 million raw cases of drinks per year across their 4 production lines - 2 glass bottle, 2 PET bottle (plastic). This is the only site in GB that produces our Appletiser products in glass. There will be 220 employees by the end of 2025; site experience here can lead to excellent career opportunities both in East Kilbride and further afield across other GB sites and pan-Euro-pacific locations.

What to expect:

You will report to the Process Production Manager and be responsible for leading labour planning with site responsible for delivery of the site production plan and day to day workforce requirements.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Responsibility for the development and standardisation (where possible) of the labour planning and reporting tools across site.
• Accountability for the accuracy of labour plan in line with operational/business needs.
• Modelling and analysis of working patterns/holidays to meet the needs of the business.
• Driving and enhancing relationships with temporary labour providers including leading meeting routines, ensuring accuracy of reporting and finances.
• Reconciliation and raising of PO’s/invoice for temporary labour costs.
• Support the site with annualised hours tracking.
• Plan and maintain annual rota.
• Ongoing and year end annualised hours calculation and optimisation.
• Analysis of actual financial performance vs budgets and providing mitigation/reasoning.
• Responsible for data extraction and interpretation for Manufacturing based analysis.
• Identification of improvement opportunities and offering solution.
• Maintain and report on Power BI Labour Dashboard.
• Maintenance and development of the Labour Management system DLM.

Skills & Essentials:

• Strong communication skills
• Prior experience in a labour planner role, or similar
• Accomplished user of Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI)
• Ability to maintain and make sound, timely decisions, without losing sight of the bigger picture
• A natural networker, building and sustaining a range of working relationships across multiple functions and levels with ease
• Great organization skills and strong attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure and problem solve

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.

We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From , and to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider.

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.