Planner

Wastequip•Lakeland, FL

About The Position

The Production Planner creates, analyzes, and consolidates data, such as work orders, product specifications, engineering drawings, parts and materials inventory lists, and machine and worker production rates/capacities, to establish efficient allocation and scheduling of parts, materials, labor, machines, and sequences of operations workflow to achieve maximum run time, efficiencies and inventory accuracy.

Requirements

Ability to handle multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced environment
3+ years of planning experience in a manufacturing environment
Ability to interact with all levels within the organizations, both internal and external
Ability to maintain accurate records
Ability to maintain excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to work in manufacturing shop floor environment
Proficiency in Word, Excel, and Power Point
Minimum Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business or comparable work experience

Responsibilities

Establish production schedules to meet customer expectations while maintaining a consistent production environment
Prepare and consolidate job documentation and instructions for shop floor activities.
Analyze, plan, and manage production schedules based on capacities of equipment, material, machine and labor.
Analyze current, backlog job orders, and accordingly develop/adjust production plan and schedules.
Develop and negotiate lead times with commercial and operation teams based on customer requirement and material, labor and machine capacities.
Elevate any issues to master planning for regional resolution.
Monitor the execution of work orders, engineering drawings, and material flow to meet establish production schedules
Review production plan, and inventory levels to identify risks and communicate required long-range capacity changes required to the Plant Manager and Master Planner.
Plan inventory management to avoid any shortages and excesses.
Review, change, and communicate required schedule changes to purchasing, operations, and commercial teams
Develop and document process improvements for inventory, manufacturing and production control systems to meet business objectives.
Investigate production control problems, analyze root causes, and derive solutions.
Develop positive relationship with operation and commercial staffing to meet customer demand and productivity goals.
Work with materials, manufacturing and purchasing departments in identifying and resolving production planning problems.

Benefits

Health Care. Our health care benefits include medical, dental and vision plans for all regular, full-time employees.
Short- and Long-Term Disability. Wastequip pays for non-occupational illnesses and injuries at no cost to employees. This benefit is available to all regular, full-time employees.
401k Retirement Plan. Employees can contribute a percentage of their weekly gross wages, up to the annual IRS maximum, and Wastequip will provide a company match.
Paid Time Off (PTO). Wastequip offers a flexible approach to time off. Our policy allows employees to set their own priorities and receive regular pay for vacation, illness, family emergencies, personal time, inclement weather, personally observed holidays and more.
Holidays. Wastequip observes 10 paid company holidays during each calendar year.
Tuition Reimbursement. Wastequip understands the importance of personal and professional development and encourages employees to continue their professional education. To support employee career development, we have established a reimbursement program that covers expenses for approved coursework.
Wastequip’s internship program provides students and recent graduates with incredible career-related experiences. We strive to give our interns transferrable skills, networking opportunities and strong professional portfolios.
We offer paid summer internships in the following departments: Research Marketing IT Operations Human Resources ... and more
Wastequip is committed to developing our employees. We provide each individual with the resources and support necessary to grow personally and professionally. Our career growth tools include company training, off-site classes, cross-divisional experiences, collaborative projects and more.
We offer our employees the opportunity to share their creativity in an open environment and encourage them to offer new ideas to improve efficiency, effectiveness and profitability in every area of the company.
Because we invest in our employees, Wastequip is committed to promoting from within and identifying future leaders from our own workforce.
Wastequip actively supports charitable activities across all divisions through employee time, monetary and product donations. Each division has the flexibility to identify and support the charitable causes that are most important to the employees and the communities in which they work.
Employee-designed volunteer and charitable programs have a huge impact on smaller communities and organizations that might otherwise be overlooked.
Our employees have participated in the following charitable activities: Community cleanups Charity runs/walks Local food bank donations School supplies donations