Production Planner

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare, manage, and execute daily and weekly production and shift plans for print production and packing teams, ensuring optimal labour utilisation across all shifts.
• Open, manage, and close work orders, ensuring accurate system capture and documentation.
• Coordinate production across flexographic and digital printing machines.
• Plan material usage and availability for self-adhesive materials, ABS, inks, vinyls, cutting dies, and plates.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date departmental registers, including:
• Testing Register
• Cutting Die Register
• Plate Register
• Material and Quality Registers
• Ensure all testing methodologies are followed for different self-adhesive materials and substrates.
• File production documentation in correct sequential order for traceability and audits.
• Create, implement, and continuously improve process flows within the production department.
• Liaise closely with purchasing, QA, maintenance, and dispatch teams.
• Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Plan and balance manpower across shifts, accounting for skills availability, machine requirements, leave, and overtime.

Minimum Requirements:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (formulas, pivots, planning sheets, reporting).
• Strong knowledge of self-adhesive materials, inks, vinyls, ABS.
• Understanding of flexographic printing machines and digital printing processes.
• Knowledge of cutting dies and printing plates.
• Excellent numerical ability confident with maths, quantities, yields, and variances.
• Ability to multitask and work effectively under pressure.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.

Desired Attributes:

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Process-driven and improvement-focused mindset.
• Confident decision-maker with strong problem-solving skills.