Production Planner (Hemmant)

**About The Role**: **ARC (The Australian Reinforcing Company)** are looking for a motivated and detail-driven **Production Planner** to join our tight-knit and experienced planning team at **Hemmant**.

With strong team retention, deep industry expertise, and a collaborative work culture, you’ll be well-supported from day one. This role is key to ensuring the smooth and efficient coordination of daily production activities while meeting customer deadlines and maintaining operational efficiency.

As the central link between sales, scheduling, operations, customer service, despatch, and supply, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring everything runs to plan. You’ll manage production schedules, communicate updates, resolve issues, and help deliver the right product, at the right time, every time. It’s a fast-paced, hands-on environment where your ability to stay ahead of the curve will make a real impact.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Plan, monitor and coordinate daily production activities to meet customer and operational requirements
- Confirm delivery timelines with site personnel before scheduling work
- Manage and allocate customer orders into production efficiently and accurately
- Communicate delays, updates, and changes to relevant teams across the business
- Adjust production runs in response to changing demands without compromising delivery
- Ensure all drawings and documents are attached to schedules when required
- Work closely with supervisors and operations teams to help achieve DIFOT (Delivery In Full On Time) targets

You’re an organised and proactive problem-solver with a strong background in manufacturing, production planning, or scheduling. You understand how production and supply chain activities connect and are comfortable navigating shifting priorities in a high-volume environment.

You thrive in a collaborative setting, communicate clearly across teams, and have a solid focus on customer service, continuous improvement, and delivering results.

**We're looking for someone with**:

- Experience in a manufacturing or production environment, including at least 2 years in a planning or scheduling role
- A qualification in Production, Manufacturing, or Engineering (preferred but not essential if experience is robust)
- Proven experience working with Lean or Competitive Manufacturing principles
- Experience with planning or ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Symix, PlanX) and solid Microsoft Office skills.
- Excellent communication, coordination, and organisational skills
- A customer-first mindset, strong initiative, and the ability to work well under pressure
- Experience in steel, construction, or supply chain industries will be highly regarded, but not essential.

**Key Benefits**: Below are some of our key central benefits that are available to InfraBuild employees. Other benefits may be available depending on your role or site.
- **Generous parental leave**: 20 weeks paid Primary Carer Leave and 3 weeks paid Partner Leave for those who have worked at the business for at least 12 months. The company also provides superannuation contributions for the Primary Carer during the period of unpaid parental leave for eligible employees (limitations apply).
- **Access to long service leave after 5 years**: Employees who are not covered by an Enterprise Agreement can access accrued Long Service Leave (LSL) at the rate of 1.3 weeks per year of service after 5 years continuous service.
- **Employee Benefits Program**: discounts for employees, friends and family on a huge selection of products and services from a variety of brands including Samsung, Coles, Harvey Norman, Village Cinemas, Dick Smith, Vodafone, Thrifty and many more.
- **Corporate rates for private health insurance**: Nib Health Insurance offers discounted cover for employees.

**About Us**: **The Australian Reinforcing Company (ARC)** is a local supplier of steel reinforcing that Australians have trusted for more than 100 years. With a proud history of innovation, supported by the largest branch distribution network in Australia, ARC provides a localised service adapted to our communities, towns & cities from Tasmania to Townsville, and everywhere in between.

**ARC** is a brand of **InfraBuild**, Australia’s leading integrated steel manufacturing, distribution and recycling business, making steel using our electric arc furnaces. InfraBuild provides solutions for commercial and residential construction, large scale and nation-building infrastructure as well as our primary producers and rural sectors. With ambitions to be carbon neutral by 2030, each day we help build futures through sustainable steel.

**Why Work Here?**: We offer more than just a job; we provide a dynamic environment built on **three pillars** that define our commitment to both our team and our industry.
- **Work with a greater purpose**: Join us in the pursuit of a sustainable future as we progress our ambition to become carbon-neutral. You will contribute to a legacy that not onl Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3qz9o3