Production and Materials Supply Planner

Position Title: Production and Materials Supply Planner
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Ballarat
Requisition ID: 36704
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
As our Production & Materials Supply Planner, you'll play a key role in ensuring smooth, efficient production and supply across our ANZ network. Your focus will be on balancing customer needs, operational efficiencies, and raw material availability through smart scheduling, supply planning, and material control.
This role can be based at one of our key McCain locations: Ballarat, Melbourne or Smithton (AU), or Hastings or Timaru (NZ).
What you'll be doing.
Scheduling

• Create and maintain flexible, achievable daily/hourly production schedules across ANZ sites.
• Collaborate with production teams to optimise scheduling for customer demand and plant efficiency.
• Monitor schedule adherence, investigate variances, and implement corrective actions.
• Support new product development (NPD) by scheduling initial production and setting up materials.
• Maintain accurate master data in SAP to reflect production and supply changes.

Supply & Material Planning

• Ensure raw materials are available to meet production needs on time and in full.
• Monitor inventory levels, minimise overstocks, and manage obsolete/redundant stock.
• Escalate and resolve issues with delayed or rejected materials to avoid production impact.
• Build strong supplier relationships and support regular supplier performance reviews.
• Continuously improve planning processes to reduce inventory holding costs.

Material Control

• Ensure availability and accuracy of bulk materials to support short-term production plans.
• Work closely with Quality and 3PL teams to align materials with production and customer standards.
• Regularly reconcile inventory records with 3PL data to maintain accuracy.
• Provide accurate reporting on material costs and inventory status.
• Maintain and improve materials control systems to support uninterrupted production.

What you'll need to be successful.

• Strong interpersonal skills with integrity, empathy, persuasiveness, and resilience under pressure.
• High attention to detail, urgency, and creativity in problem-solving.
• Adaptable and flexible when working across multiple teams and functions.
• Quick thinker who can adjust plans in response to unexpected changes.
• Collaborative mindset and skilled in identifying and resolving supply chain issues.

About the team .
You'll be joining a small but high-performing and collaborative team that prides itself on delivering results while maintaining a supportive and enjoyable work environment. We work hard, tackle challenges together, and make sure to have fun along the way.
About McCain .
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Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics
Division: ANZ
Department: Agricultural Planning
Location(s): AU - Australia : Victoria : Ballarat || AU - Australia : Victoria : Melbourne || NZ - New Zealand : Canterbury : Christchurch || NZ - New Zealand : Canterbury : Timaru || NZ - New Zealand : Hawke's Bay : Hastings
Company: McCain Foods (Aust) Pty.