07 - Planner
About The Position
The Planner independently performs moderately complex planning and scheduling work within established professional standards and practices, under general supervision. The role plans, organizes, controls, and executes production schedules for designated products, coordinating programs and using customer demand, product profiles, capacity, cycle times, material availability, and other inputs. The Planner analyzes scheduling impacts across internal functions, maintains the quality and integrity of materials requirements planning information, and revises plans based on actual results. The position manages planning issues related to engineering changes, supports new product introductions and product transfers, communicates materials availability, and develops customer shipment commitments and recovery plans. It also reviews inventory, backlog, availability, and on-time delivery, leads planning-process improvement, supports order fulfillment practices, provides guidance and training to less experienced employees, and offers planning expertise across sites and departments. Duties are performed in a normal office environment and may occasionally require overnight travel.
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials, and processes.
- Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques, and manufacturing control systems.
- Basic knowledge of purchasing principles, techniques, and philosophies.
- Knowledge of basic computer applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as multiple business applications.
- Basic understanding of customer needs.
- Good analytical and statistical skills.
- Ability to plan strategically for the coordinated build and delivery of one or several products.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy under tight deadlines.
- Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and problem-solve a variety of tasks to ensure timely and accurate completion.
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
- Two to four years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Responsibilities
- Plan, organize, control, and execute production schedules for designated products, including program coordination.
- Develop production schedules based on actual and forecasted customer demand, product demand profiles, and customer knowledge.
- Analyze capacity, board cycle times, request urgency, material availability, and other inputs to help determine schedules.
- Analyze the internal impact of customer scheduling on line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, and related functions.
- Ensure the quality and integrity of information used to generate materials requirements plans.
- Revise plans based on analysis of actual results versus plan.
- Manage issues associated with engineering changes to minimize cost exposure, excess materials, and risk to customer shipments.
- Participate in new product introductions and support product transfers and de-transfers by planning and analyzing common and unique materials against project deadlines.
- Communicate materials availability information to support build plans throughout the product life cycle.
- Maintain knowledge of customer volume fluctuations and determine materials requirements.
- Provide procurement with information on demand variances.
- Develop and communicate short- and long-term customer commitments to ship products.
- Coordinate resources needed to meet shipment commitments.
- Review and report aggregate product inventory, inventory exposure, backlog, availability, and on-time delivery.
- Develop recovery plans when shipments are missed.
- Lead continuous improvement of planning processes.
- Facilitate the development of processes and best-practice models for outbound order fulfillment.
- Provide leadership and support to employees of NAOF.
- Make decisions regarding workload allocation and hiring practices.
- Provide expertise to other sites and departments on North American Order Fulfillment models and practices.
- Provide training and guidance and may assign work to less experienced employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
