Operations Planner/Sr. Ops Planner

Sappi • Portland, ME

267d

About The Position

This role manages the block production plan for both special making and make-to-stock orders across paper making resources at a SNA manufacturing site. This role equates to the master scheduler for products on a given paper machine or through the required papermaking process route.

Requirements

• 1 to 3 years of production scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience in Supply Chain is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Optimizing machine resources through design and implementation of a Master Production Scheduling (MPS) process, managing supply orders through the planned, fixed, and frozen for release process steps.
• Management of scheduling / production bottlenecks by maintaining PM blocks for web and sheet products.
• Steering manufacturing requests to most cost effective (manufacturing and distribution) resources and to most cost effective time slots.
• Minimize 'lost orders' and controlling order feasibility (meet the required delivery-time and volume).
• Insuring synchronization of APO and MICS to support Available To Promise (ATP) Process.
• Securing scheduled capacity to achieve inventory service targets.
• Block creation and monitoring from forecast to mill transition with appropriate product mix, profitability and maintaining mill direct program commitments.
• Provide analysis and reporting for Mill Operations Planning including any metrics, KPIs, and identification of improvement initiatives.
• Regular communication with all members of Inside Sales, Sales Operations, Mill Planning, Distribution and Operations Planning to monitor backlogs and order status as appropriate.
• Working with Inventory Planners and Supply Chain leadership to identify, design and implement more efficient and effective inventory service for stock items the Operations Planner supports.
• Participation in and leading Mill and Operations Planning process improvements.
• Provide and participate in department cross training.
• Participate in specific customer action team efforts.
• Support and participate in corporate Lean Six Sigma improvement efforts.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Paper Manufacturing