Planning Specialist

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

As a Planning Specialist you will  manage and optimize our bakery’s production schedule. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining the daily and weekly production plan, updating the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system, and ensuring a smooth workflow between departments. You will collaborate with Purchasing, Production, and Logistics to address any scheduling issues and minimize product changeovers, while maintaining a customer fill rate of 99.8% or better. I

Responsibilities:

• Scheduling and maintaining the daily and weekly production plan for the bakery
• Creating and updating the production in MRP
• Supporting the delivery of the production plan
• Maintaining a current view of MRP for the current weeks production plan
• Maintaining a current view of MRP for the 13 week rolling forecast production plan
• Provide weekly schedule for all departments
• Review previous day’s production and implement changes to the schedule as required from the anticipated delay meeting
• Minimize product changeover by effective planning
• Participate in daily production meetings
• Responsible for any shorts explanation is required daily
• Work closely with Purchasing, Production and Logistics to facilitate any emergency requests
• Maintain customer fill rate of 99.8% or better
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned
   

Qualifications:

• College diploma preferred or equivalent experience
• Computer literate and proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel)

We thank each applicant for taking the time and effort to submit your resume, however, only candidates to be interviewed will be contacted. Our organization is committed to promoting the independence, dignity, integration, and equality of opportunity of persons with disabilities by ensuring the accessibility of our facilities and services. Accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment and selection process. Applicants need to make their required accommodations known in advance.