Production Planner

Founded in 2018, SoulShine Farms has quickly grown to be a local further-processing poultry industry leader. Our work revolves around our values, our people, and our dedication to quality.

SoulShine Farms is seeking an experienced Production Planner to develop production plans and schedules that meet customer demand while supporting plant efficiency, inventory goals, product freshness, and profitability. This role connects Sales, Customer Service, Procurement, Plant Operations, Warehousing, Logistics, Finance, and Supply Chain leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and long-range production schedules.
• Convert customer orders and demand forecasts into executable production plans.
• Balance customer demand with plant capacity, labor, raw-material availability, inventory needs, and operating constraints.
• Adjust schedules when demand, staffing, equipment, or supply conditions change.
• Communicate production priorities, schedule changes, risks, and recovery plans.
• Monitor finished-goods and work-in-process inventory to help minimize shortages, excess inventory, waste, aging, and obsolescence.
• Coordinate with Procurement to ensure ingredients, packaging, labels, and raw materials are available.
• Partner with Warehousing and Logistics to support product movement, storage, and customer commitments.
• Develop planning reports, dashboards, and KPI scorecards and recommend improvements based on performance trends.

Required Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in production planning, supply chain planning, operations planning, scheduling, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of production-scheduling and inventory-management principles.
  Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience using ERP, planning, inventory, or production systems.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, project-management, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond quickly to changing conditions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to coordinate across departments without direct authority.
• Ability to hear, speak, read, and comprehend communications in English.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Food manufacturing, poultry processing, high-volume production, demand planning, capacity planning, multi-facility operations, or continuous improvement.
• Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills.

Work Environment
This position is based in Gainesville, Georgia with occasional travel between production facilities. The role also requires periodic visits to manufacturing areas and use of required personal protective equipment.

Benefits

• Weekly Paychecks
• Six (6) Paid Holidays
• Earned Vacation
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (a portion of the premiums is paid by SoulShine Farms)

Application Process
Interested parties are invited to submit a resume using this online portal. Applications will be reviewed on a regular basis until the job opening is filled.

IMPORTANT: By submitting this application online, you hereby authorize SoulShine Farms to contact, obtain, and verify the accuracy of the information contained in your application from all current and/or previous employers, references, and educational institutions. You also hereby release from liability SoulShine Farms and its representatives for seeking, gathering, and using such information to make employment decisions, and all other persons or organizations for providing such information.

You understand that any misrepresentation or material omission made by you on this application will be sufficient cause for cancellation of your application or immediate termination of employment if you are employed by SoulShine Farms whenever the misrepresentation or material omission is discovered.

SoulShine Farms is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.