The Planner coordinates and expedites the flow of work to ensure smooth operations throughout the food production and distribution life of a given product, to meet customer delivery requirements and to best utilize the company's productive capacity.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Ensure production schedules meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company's productive capacity.
• Create and maintain internal planning and scheduling for entire plant.
• Analyze work order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements.
• Manage inventory levels, schedules and availability of selected item, either manufactured or purchased, to meet production schedules.
• Coordinate with warehousing and purchasing to use product within the time constraints of its shelf life.
• Have a good relationship with the culinary distribution centers we service and ensure they get everything they order in full.
• Ensure everything is being made in time for production to run and communicate when issues arise.
• Work with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department and supervisors on material status and production planning issues.
• Act on termination or cancellation requests from depots and maintain inventory levels accordingly.
• Work hand in hand with Purchasing on shorts and lead times for items brought in.
• Run daily reports for demand and work completed.
• Learn purchasing and relieve team when time off is needed.
• Coordinate with nutrition on subs and necessary changes.
• Communicate with all departments as see fit on a daily basis.
• Make contingency plans when things come up that hinders production.
• Report out schedule changes to other departments for holidays and days off.
• Perform other incidental and/or related duties as required and/or assigned.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE JOB

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is frequently required sit, stand, walk, talk and hear.
• Use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Position sometimes requires extended hours including evenings and/or weekends, travel to multiple work sites and occasional out-of-state travel.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work is performed primarily in an office setting. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.
• The work is performed secondarily in a manufacturing and warehouse environment, specifically the packing and warehousing areas. The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work and duties that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position, and Whitsons reserves the right to add additional duties or modify existing duties.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between Whitsons and team member and is subject to change by Whitsons as the needs of Whitsons and requirements of the job change.