Poultry Processing Planning Manager

Company Description

We are Malayan Flour Mills Berhad, an established billions ringgit public listed food manufacturing company. We aspire to be a leading food manufacturing enterprise in the region and have also diversified its business from flour milling to the sale of raw materials and integrated poultry business. Its integrated poultry business includes the breeding and sale of day-old chicks, broiler and breeder farming, processing and sale of poultry products and feeds milling. With over 50 years of experience and workforce of over 2600 in Malaysia and Vietnam, as part of our expansion plans we are seeking the right talents to be part of our winning team.

Job Description

Responsible to drive the overall planning and scheduling activities of the poultry processing plant production hence optimizing orders fulfilment, materials movement, on-time delivery according to demand and quality standards which are aligned with the company’s strategies.

• Strategize and direct the overall master planning of production activities considering capacity constraints such as equipment, manpower, raw materials, ingredients, consumables, crates, etc to meet sales forecast and/or customers’ orders while meeting standards of safety and quality.
• Ensure production will optimise orders fulfilment and on-time delivery in accordance to sales forecasts or customer orders whilst minimize the imbalance parts working in collaboration with sales and demand planner. Identify challenges and opportunities, perform root cause analysis on variances and recommend the action plans accordingly.
• Monitor the business market demands and orchestrate the plant production while taking into consideration the upstream supply from the broiler farm which includes (but not limited to) managing birds’ allocation to production lines by utilizing bird size bell curve, broilers’ scratches, Coefficient of Variance (CV), harvesting and logistics, which all will have impacts on the quality of the poultry products.
• Collaborate with Production Manager to drive optimal Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in the plant to ensure equipment is availability for production and timely completion of preventive maintenance, through close coordination with Engineers from P1 to P8.
• Develop good liaison with FP&A team for cost-effective evaluations, Marketing for effective inventory management and profit optimization on production output (product/SKU mix) and HR on Learning and Growth.
• Work closely with upstream broiler suppliers (Stakeholder Engagement) to reduce quality defects of birds coming into the plant; uniformity, (wing and drumstick bruises, yellow and red scratches, ammonia burns on the hock joint and foot pads). 
• Manage the entire production scheduling at the plant encompassing optimal workforce utilisation taking into consideration the cost benefit of overtime cost against the production targets that has been set.
• Continuously review, monitor & analyse customer requirement, supplier performance, planning and actual production in order to achieve customer’s satisfaction.
• Optimize production planning and control with up-to-date information on demand variation affecting raw material requirements which ultimately affecting production planning and overall operation.
• Continuously drive improvements and operational excellence in the plant production planning to achieve a lean, streamlined and effective value chain hence optimising profitability.
• To perform any other tasks and assignments as directed by the management from time to time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, Diploma in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Food Technology, Food Processing Engineering, Business Administration or equivalent.
• 7 – 8 years of working experience in the relevant field.

Additional Information

• Winner of HR Asia Best Company to Work For in Asia for 6 consecutive years in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 & 2018
• Winner of HR Asia Most Caring Company Award for 5 consecutive years in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 & 2019