Planning Supervisor

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 14 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 the Planning Supervisor you will lead the daily and weekly production scheduling for our bakery’s multiple lines, ensuring seamless coordination with operations, sanitation, engineering, and maintenance teams. This role involves creating and updating production plans in SAP, providing clear schedules, and adjusting plans based on daily performance insights to optimize production flow and minimize changeover. 

Responsibilities:

• Scheduling and maintaining the daily and weekly production plan for the bakery's multiple production lines
• Creating and updating the production in SAP
• Supporting the delivery of the production plan working with operations team, sanitation, engineering and maintenance
• Assist Corporate Planning with the long and short-term rolling production plans
• Provide a weekly detailed schedule for all production lines
• Review the previous day’s production and implement changes to the schedule as required
• Minimize product changeover by effective planning and sequencing
• Facilitate the weekly production meetings and participate in new development project meetings with key stakeholders
• Work closely with Purchasing, Production, and Logistics to facilitate any emergency requests
• Maintain customer fill rate of 99.8% or better, and providing explanation to any customer shorts
• Drive root-cause analysis into potential or actual customer shorts
• Participate in forecasting an 8-week production overview plan with a detailed 2-week scheduling plan
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned
• Adhere to all applicable job procedures as outlined in the SOP manual
• Adhere to GMPs and Health and Safety rules as outlined in the employee handbook
• Ensure GMP’s and safe food handling practices are being followed

Qualifications:

• College diploma or University degree or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of manufacturing and planning practices
• 5-7 years of experience in a planning role, specifically in a manufacturing environment
• Demonstrated extensive knowledge of planning and scheduling processes and best practices
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong multi-tasking and problem-solving skills
• Flexibility with the ability to adapt, respond quickly, and manage change in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organization and project management skills
• Proficient 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.