Production Planner

Production Planner

Wawona Frozen Foods
· Fresno, CA
· On-site
· Full-time, [Exempt]
· Planning Department

Turn the demand plan into the schedule that runs our operation, and be the person who keeps every line staged, set up, and running.

Wawona Frozen Foods is a family-owned company and the leading U.S. processor of frozen peaches. We pack roughly 90 million pounds of peaches and other fruit each year in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley.

For more than five decades, the Smittcamp family has grown, packed, and shipped fruit to the nation's largest club and grocery retailers, school nutrition programs, food service distributors, and food and beverage manufacturers. Our state-of-the-art production methods and facilities deliver consistent, high-quality products while meeting the highest food safety standards required by the USDA and state regulators.

Our vision is simple: a family business putting a Wawona fruit in every freezer, fruit cup, and smoothie in America.

The Production Planner turns the demand plan into an executable production schedule. You'll schedule production, guide labor planning, coordinate materials, and direct raw material moves so every line is staged and ready to run.

You'll build and manage the schedule in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. You'll own production-side readiness for BOMs, specifications, and Released Production Order (RPO) setup, and track the metrics that drive line efficiency, run time, and utilization.

You are the gatekeeper for every schedule addition, change, and substitution. Nothing reaches the floor until you have reviewed its impact on capacity, labor, materials, cost, food safety, and customers.

We're looking for someone who is highly collaborative, has a bias for action, and makes data-driven decisions using Business Central, Power BI, and Excel automation.

Production scheduling

• Convert the Demand Planner's demand plan into a feasible production schedule by line, shift, and day.
• Build, maintain, and publish the schedule in the Business Central Planning Worksheet.
• Sequence runs to minimize changeovers and downtime while meeting service levels, inventory targets, and sanitation and allergen requirements.
• Maintain a rolling look-ahead and communicate changes promptly to Operations, Warehouse, Quality, and Supply Planning.
• Track schedules against actuals, and monitor co-packer and customer contract commitments.

Gatekeeper for additions, changes, and substitutions

• Serve as the single point of control for all schedule changes and material or packaging substitutions.
• Evaluate each request for impact on capacity, labor, materials, cost, food safety, and customer commitments before approval.
• Confirm substitutions are approved by Quality and reflected in the BOM and production order before release.
• Document changes and communicate decisions to all affected teams.

Labor scheduling guidance

• Translate the schedule into labor requirements by line and shift using current labor standards.
• Give Operations supervisors the labor plan in advance to support crew scheduling.
• Help Production update labor standards and machine settings as needed.

Supply and material planning

• Coordinate with Supply Planning on MRP so raw materials, ingredients, and packaging are ready for each run.
• Flag material shortages early, with recommended actions.
• Manage non-inventory packaging materials.
• Stay in contact with co-packers to meet their production needs, and provide post-run reports.

Warehouse movement of raw materials

• Guide the Warehouse Manager and team on the timing and sequence of material moves to the lines.
• Ensure materials are staged ahead of each run for proper setup and uninterrupted production.
• Coordinate put-away, consumption, and…