Production Scheduler

AVARA FOODS LIMITED; Sandwell; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food business is looking for a Scheduler to join their team in Sandwell. You will manage daily scheduling processes and ensure on-time delivery of customer orders in a fast-paced environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication skills and strong analytical abilities, alongside a high standard of IT skills, particularly in Excel. This role offers competitive salary and various lifestyle benefits including holiday allowance and pension contributions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Additional shift allowance

31 days holiday allowance

6% pension

Lifestyle benefits including discounts

Wellbeing resources

Free staff parking

Qualifications

• Strong numerical, analytical and evaluation skills are essential.
• Ability to make effective decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Logical thinking and problem-solving skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily scheduling processes to meet planned targets.
• Act as the key interface between planning and production.
• Support production management in daily operations.
• Optimize production lines for efficiency and waste reduction.
• Track performance data and make necessary corrections.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Excel

Job description

Are you passionate about Planning? Looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience in a fast paced environment? As a Scheduler you'll take part in the Scheduling of the production lines and the materials required for product assembly. You will operate in a fast moving, high volume, and frequently changing environment where there is a significant amount of incoming data from various sources which requires the ability to analyse, process, make decisions and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Creating and managing daily scheduling processes ensuring planned targets are met.
• Pivotal interface between planning (supply management) and production to ensure on time delivery of customer orders.
• Key support to production management on daily operational deliverance.
• Material management and utilisation including WIP management.
• Optimise and balance production lines for best efficiency.
• Commercial focus on minimising waste and optimising raw material usage.
• Continual tracking of actual performance data against plan to ensure corrections can be made to keep on course for planned attainment, and to use this data to continuously improve personal and functional performance.
• Communicate in an effective and timely manner.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to focus on the right priorities
• Ability to solve problems proactively and make effective decisions
• Good accuracy and attention to detail
• A logical thinker with strong numerical, analytical and evaluation skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• High standard of IT skills and advanced excel knowledge.

You may not have heard of us, but there's a good chance you've enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK's leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country's major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.

We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door - meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales. A little about our Wednesbury site: Our advanced manufacturing site in Wednesbury, West Midlands, is our newest advanced manufacturing site, and we've invested around £4.7 million into state-of-the-art facilities. Our Wednesbury site is a flagship Added Value centre for Avara, which employ over 150 talented individuals at the site, who help to supply some of the UK's largest supermarkets and popular restaurants!

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Additional shift allowance
• 31 days holiday allowance
• 6% pension
• Various lifestyle benefits, such as cashback perks, exclusive shopping discounts from well known retailers, and discounted cinema tickets!
• Wellbeing resources, including free online health advice & support, and wellbeing assessments.
• Free staff parking