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Ready to advance your career with a global leader that understands that success results from the incredible hardworking, dedicated, and diverse people like you we are proud to call our colleagues?
Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energise and excite you.
If you’re ready for a new opportunity with a $9 billion leader that can provide you with exciting challenges, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role at a Glance:
Production Planner
Middlesbrough, TS3
£29,500
Plus Excellent Company Benefits Including Pension Scheme, Annual Bonus Scheme, Discounted Private Health and More…
Full Time
Company: Global Distributor of chemicals & ingredients used in everyday products
Culture: Work with real purpose. Grow how you want to. Be who you are
Your skills / background: SAP, Production, Planner, Manufacturing, Coordinator, Warehouse, Transport Operations
Reporting to the Partner Manager, you'll play a key role in coordinating production planning to ensure smooth and efficient warehousing and transport operations for our key customers and third-party contracts. This hybrid role offers a mix of on-site involvement and strategic oversight, where you’ll help deliver on business KPIs and make sure the needs of our partners and internal teams are consistently met.
What your day might look like:
• Support all aspects of production planning & administration for the Veolia contract, covering sales orders, procurement, warehousing and distribution activities across both Veolia SAP & Univar SAP
• Maintain the daily production schedule to meet customer demands
• Work collaboratively with business stakeholders to ensure all operational requirements are achieved
• Ensure effective and timely customer service through verbal collaboration in the office, phone calls, instant messaging and emails
• Recommend continuous improvement and ways to reduce operating costs wherever possible.
• Ensure effective control of stock and costs
• Take product samples
• Lead Wastewater effluent testing and PTO tank inspections
• Support the investigation and administration of customer complaints
• Ensure compliance to Statutory requirements, Quality procedures, GDP Policies and Procedures, Insurance requirements
About you:
• Good numeracy and statistics skills and an excellent knowledge of Excel and SAP
• Forklift licence desirable but not essential
• Flexibility is required to meet the varying tasks that the role requires
• The ability to prioritise work and display a high level of attention to detail
• You must be customer focused, providing excellent service at all times and it is essential that you’re a good team player
Who we are:
With revenues in excess of $9 billion, Univar Solutions is one of the largest chemical & specialty product distribution businesses in the world. Our portfolio spans almost every industry, ranging from food ingredients and automotive to pharmaceutical, cosmetic and manufacturing industries. We deliver industry-leading products, services and technical support to help our customers find the right solution to their problems.
We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
We are committed to fair employment practices for all our employees, regardless of race, nationality, religion or belief, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, maternity status or any other status protected by law.
Our Values:
• Serious about safety
• We do what we say
• Where people matter
• Valuable to others
• Together we win
Sounds like a good fit? Apply here for a fast-track path to the Hiring Team who will review your application within 1-2 business days.
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If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR

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