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Bgf Industries • Altavista, VA

270d

About The Position

Do you want to take your next step in a rewarding career being a part of supplying major brands across the country and helping to protect our troops? Do you want to work for an innovative company that is building towards the future? Come work with us! BGF Industries is an historical leader in technical textile materials, providing our employees with the opportunity to support some of the world's largest and most critical industries. From automotive and electric vehicle insulation to surfboard glass, ballistic armor and aerospace composites, we continue to invest in ourselves, expanding our capabilities to constantly enter new industries and improve on existing textile technology. At BGF, we value our employees and care about their interests, enabling well-rounded industry education, and providing an inclusive culture that is intellectual, challenging and all-around positive.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or 5 years Supply Chain Planning experience.
• Strong experience within Factories, Industrial & Logistics environment: Auto, Aero.
• Min. 5 years' experience in Planning or Supply Chain roles: Procurement, Production and Inventory planning.
• Robust understanding of the planning function and processes: MPS, S&OP.
• Experience in Lean Manufacturing: Value Stream Mapping, Pull Flow, Kanban.
• Knowledge of, and experience with forecasting and supply planning tools (e.g., M3 as a plus, SAP, etc.).
• Analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to influence and mobilize broad range of stakeholders to achieve desired project/business outcome.
• Able to build and maintain relationships with people at different levels and communicate with senior stakeholders at different levels in organization.
• Be Customer-oriented.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree, preferably in Supply Chain and/or Production, covering Procurement, Inventory and Production Planning, Customs and Transportation.
• APICS CPIM certification preferred, and/or CPSM.
• Project Management certification.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the medium-term planning process (3-12 weeks) of portfolio and long term (rolling 12 months) capacity outlook, achieving target service levels while optimizing the trade-offs between production capacity constraints & inventory levels.
• Manage and develop production planning within agreed standards (inventory policies, target service level, batch sizes, lead-time for make to stock, assemble/finish-to-order products), in order to achieve a medium-term production plan that is feasible to move into the scheduling horizon.
• Support the Capacity outlook and the S&OP process; own a part of the demand review meetings on a monthly (and weekly) basis as base of understanding for volatility in demand as well as owning capacity related settings and outlook to drive discussions and create simulations, if necessary.
• Build the production plan, mainly the MPS and preparing S&OP process, to cope with the Demand (e.g. Forecasts, Orders), while maximizing the machine and labor Capacity Utilization, optimizing WIP and Finished Goods inventory level, contributing to Higher customer service level and decreasing Delivery Lead Time.
• Identify internal capacity bottlenecks in medium- & long-term planning horizon, and make recommendations and propose solutions/scenarios to solve them.
• Validate the positioning and launches of NPI manufacturing programs.
• Owning safety settings to secure service level, as well as SBUs communication for a portfolio of SBUs to be able to translate this into production volumes and capacity requirements towards the factory.
• Control service level, Confirm Customers Sales Orders confirmation dates, and monitor due date violations and ensure communication of supply issues throughout the chain, including coordination of RM Supply Point logistics, Production Planning, Customer Service Dept and 3PL in the event of a service risk.
• Engage in weekly reviews with Supply Point Operations/Scheduling teams to ensure clear communication of plans and to support opportunities to improve Supply Point outputs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Textile Mills
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree