Labour Planner

Job description

Nestlé UK&I Ltd

Fawdon Based

Labour Planning Co-ordinator

Nestlé SA is the world's leading health, wellness and nutrition company, with over seven thousand employees in the UK and Ireland alone across the 19 sites of all our business. We are proud to produce some of Britain's best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Cheerios®. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year.
As our Fawdon factory accelerates on its Continuous Improvement journey, effective management of labour across the site is a critical area to support delivery of factory targets.

Due to a system change within Labour planning and the need for insight and dynamic planning, there is an opportunity for the right candidate to ensure this key function is fully resourced throughout the year. This is a newly created role, so a great opportunity to be part of shaping its success.

To ensure labour planning is delivered for the factory in an effective and cost efficient way, you'll be required to work alternate morning and evening shifts to:

· Use the local labour planning system (DLM) and associated SAP to ensure appropriate Nestlé skills are available for the relevant shifts.
· Liaise with the relevant Shift Managers and Supply Planners to ensure the latest production plan is supported.
· Liaise with PMP within the agreed timescale to ensure resource gaps are covered.
· Consider shift patterns, skills, training, holiday cover, absence, Terms and Conditions and Working Time Directive guidelines to deliver the plan
· Maintain holiday and overtime/offline data within the system.
· Accurate recording of all used Labour Planning data using Excel tools

To be considered for this opportunity, you will need to have experience of the factory structure and shift patterns.

You will need to be confident on a variety of different systems and have strong inter-personal skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure.

You will need to be tenacious and dynamic in finding solutions to ensure we can deliver the required production plan, and be able to cope under pressure with various last minute changes that can result in re-planning numerous times.

You'll also bring:

· Proven ability to deal with people at all levels
· A confident and courteous telephone and face to face manner
· Confident use of SAP and MS Excel systems
· Understanding of Manufacturing and Supply Planning inter-relationship
Closing date for applications: 12/02/16 (Interview may be conducted during application time frame)

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