About Grove Juice
Grove Fruit Juice is one of the largest Australian family-owned fresh fruit processors in Australia. We are Australian farming families crafting premium juice straight from our groves. Our brands include Grove Juice, Boost Juice, and Only Juice, as well as an extensive private label portfolio.
We are a vertically integrated manufacturing business which includes large-scale farm production, high-volume raw juice extraction and world class automated bottling systems. We take care of the entire juice making process – we plant, grow, harvest, select and squeeze it ourselves, preserving what’s good for our customers. We’re more than a juice company. We’re a values-based business with a broad purpose to inspire real change and have an overall beneficial impact on our community. As we grow, our contribution to society grows, providing lasting value to our community that’s well beyond our operations. We want to leave our people, our families, our community, and our land in a better place, as a result of our success.
Our philosophy is simple; we want to do right by our product, our people, our community and our land.
The Opportunity
We are in an exciting growth phase in our business, with a renewed focus on building and investing behind Australia’s favourite chilled juice brands.
As a result, we are seeking an experienced Production Planner to join our close-knit, dynamic team at our Leeton site.
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing effective production schedules to ensure the timely manufacture of juice products in alignment with customer demand, inventory targets, and operational capacity. This role coordinates closely with procurement, quality, manufacturing, and logistics teams to balance raw material availability, production efficiency,
and product freshness.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with relevant teams to coordinate and plan production activities.
- Coordinate raw material deliveries against production requirements, ensuring deliveries meet optimum performance.
- Monitor finished goods input /output based on daily production capacity & warehouse capacity.
- Fresh juice ordering & rotational consumption of bulk juices.
- Coordinate with fruit processing team and strategy based planning to fulfil tanks management & efficiency.
- Maintain stock rotation & minimum write off of finished products.
- Present daily and weekly schedules on designated timeline with tipping schedule.
- Maintain minimum plan down time & highest efficiency on daily planning.
- Present & share daily plan completion report & downtime data with teams .
- Review weekly capacity plan & production capacity plan.
- Coordinate export order bookings and container packing schedules.
- Coordinate order lead times, dispatch schedules and supply chain.
- Coordinate training scheduling for Maintenance, calibration and QA checks, HACCP etc.
- Track finished goods inventory & MLOR stock based on forecast.
- Focus on optimum cost recovery and minimum waste of inventory.
Essential Criteria
- 5+ years working as a production planner.
- Demonstrated experience in the use of MRP programs (QAD highly regarded).
- Understanding of fluctuation between actual demand & forecast demand.
- Focused & precise.
- Advanced thinker.
- Good team player.
The salary and benefits package will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. If you meet the above qualifications and are excited about the opportunity to work with a dynamic and growing company, please submit your application for consideration.
