Junior Production Planner
Portadown

Are you looking to start or develop your career in Production Planning within food manufacturing?

Vickerstock are working in partnership with a growing food manufacturing business based in Portadown to recruit a Junior Production Planner. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with some exposure to production, supply chain, or planning to develop their skills in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

This role offers hands-on experience supporting production planning across multiple manufacturing lines, with the opportunity to build a long-term career within supply chain and operations.

What's on offer Salary up to £28k-£33k, depending on experience

• Join a growing and well-invested food manufacturing business

• Supportive and collaborative operations team

• Excellent opportunity for career development within supply chain and planning

Your day to day

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Junior Production Planner will support the planning team in ensuring production runs smoothly and customer demand is met efficiently.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the creation and maintenance of daily and weekly production plans

• Assisting with converting sales orders and forecasts into production schedules

• Liaising with Production, Quality, Engineering, and Procurement teams to help ensure plans are delivered

• Monitoring raw material and packaging availability and highlighting potential shortages

• Updating production schedules to reflect changes in demand, downtime, or labour availability

• Ensuring production plans follow food safety and quality requirements

• Helping track key performance indicators such as OTIF, waste, and schedule adherence

• Maintaining planning data within ERP/MRP systems

• Supporting the scheduling of new product development (NPD) and sample runs

• Communicating updated production plans to relevant teams

Your essential ingredients

• Some experience in production, supply chain, scheduling, or planning (manufacturing or food industry desirable)

• A good understanding of manufacturing or production environments

• Strong Excel and IT skills; experience with ERP/MRP systems is advantageous

• Strong organisation and attention to detail

• Good communication skills, with the ability to work across multiple teams

• Keen to learn and develop within production planning

Interested in finding out more?

Contact Paul Muir to discuss this opportunity in complete confidence on T: 028 9031 3720, or submit an updated CV via the link on the page.

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As an experienced specialist recruiter within Food Manufacturing/FMCG, with over 7 years' experience, I recruit Production & Operations professionals at all levels across Northern Ireland.

If this role isn't quite right for you, but you work within Food Production or Operations in Northern Ireland, please feel free to share your CV for future consideration (you can also connect with me on LinkedIn).