Production Planner

Production Planner - Wine Manufacturing

Permanent Full-Time | Wine Bottling Operations

Company: Poulter Family Wines Limited

Location: Auckland

Role Summary

Responsible for planning and coordinating wine bottling operations to ensure production runs are prepared, organised, and delivered efficiently. This role connects customer requirements, production schedules, materials, and teams to ensure the right products are ready at the right time.

About Us

Poulter Group is a proudly 100% family‑owned New Zealand business built on hard work, care for our people, and a commitment to doing things properly. From orchard to vineyard, winery to bottling line, we grow, harvest, craft, bottle, and deliver quality wine through a vertically integrated, resilient, and future‑focused operation. As ONE team, we are building a strong, profitable, and sustainable wine and produce business for the next generation.

About the Role

Poulter Family Wines Limited is seekinga highly organised, hands-on and proactive Production Planner to join our growing wine manufacturing operation.

This is a hands-on planning role sitting at the centre of our bottling operation. You’ll own the production plan and make sure everything is ready to go, the right wine, dry goods, labels, specifications and paperwork, before it hits the bottling line.

You’ll work closely with our Operations, Bottling Line, Winemaking, Supply Chain, Warehouse and Sales teams to keep production running smoothly and stay ahead of potential issues.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Develop, maintain and communicate the rolling bottling and production schedule.
• Turn customer orders, forecasts and stock requirements into production plans.
• Monitor customer deadlines and production priorities.
• Coordinate changes to the production plan and communicate these across the team.
• Coordinate wine readiness and production requirements.
• Forecast and order bottles, cartons, labels, closures and other dry goods.
• Manage supplier lead times and follow up on outstanding requirements.
• Ensure every bottling run is fully prepared ahead of production.
• Prepare bottling specifications, production paperwork and system requirements.
• Identify shortages, capacity constraints or potential issues before they impact production.
• Reconcile completed bottling runs, including finished goods, wine and dry goods usage.
• Help continually improve our planning and production processes.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in production planning, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, FMCG, food/beverage or wine would be highly regarded.
• Strong planning capability and the ability to learn quickly are essential.

Personal Attributes

You will bring:

• A proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
• A calm and organised approach when managing competing priorities.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• A positive attitude and willingness to support the wider team.
• Confidence to ask questions, challenge issues, and communicate concerns early.
• A practical, hands-on approach and willingness to work collaboratively across departments.
• A continuous improvement mindset and desire to make processes better.

How to apply

If this role sounds like the right fit for you and you are excited about the opportunity to join the Poulter Family Wines team, we would love to hear from you. Please click the " Apply " button and follow the prompts to submit your application.

If you would like to learn more about the role, the bottling line, or what it is like to be part of our team, please get in touch at [email protected].